Dr. John Duffy
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736 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2019
last heard Jan 2025
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Oh, I would be happy to, thank you.
So I am a clinical psychologist up here in Chicago, and um I've been practicing for about 25 years, and I honestly never, if I'm being completely transparent, never really intended to work with teenagers.
My plan was to work with high-functioning adults, nice and easy practice.
Um and my first uh when I opened my practice, my first reflection.
referral resource was a social worker at a high school.
And um and then my second was and my third was and I realized boy I really love these kids.
Uh they they've got um remarkable strengths that often go untapped and um even when they are depressed or at their worst, when they're super anxious or angry or uh defiant.
There's still some spirit there that I really love and admire.
Um, so I've enjoyed my entire career working with them.
About eight years ago, I thought, oh, you know what?
I want to write a book that's a little guide to parents just based on what I see in session.
And that was called The Available Parent.
I'm really proud of that book, and that was really about.
parenting free as we can of our own fear, our own judgment and our own ego.
And really I kind of left it at that, like if you can do that and stay in that lane, then you're available to your kids in the way they need you to be and you're fine.
So that came out in twenty eleven.
And in the last eight years since then, maybe four or five years, there's been such a dramatic shift in the landscape of adolescence to the point where I think the talks we were saving for twelve or thirteen we now have to have at eight or nine.
Um adolescence now stretches in my mind to the early twenties because a lot of the challenges of adolescence, we have trouble meeting
Because of what I call in the book identity traffic and a few other factors that plague the late adolescent.
And I do think that these kids are dealing with a whole new set of stressors that no other group of teenagers before them has had to deal with.
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