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Adolescence Netflix series.- Family Systems Under Stress

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A teen doesn’t implode in a vacuum and the most frightening part of Adolescence is how ordinary the failure can look from the outside. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I’m unpacking episodes three and four of Netflix’s Adolescence through the lens I use in the therapy room every week: family systems. When one part of a system can’t hold emotion, the pressure doesn’t disappear. It moves, concentrates, and often lands in the child who ends up carrying what no one else can bear.

We talk about the “identified patient” and why labeling a young person can…

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