How might a therapeutic ethos serve young adults?–A commentary on the theme issue

Abstract

This engaging symposium opens up the question of therapeutic work with young adults in a consistently engrossing way that is refreshingly unpredictable and richly diverse. Particularly important is the appropriately extensive space given to the cultural context of therapy in late modernity; the impact and implications of the Zeitgeist for working therapeutically with young adults; the contested place of training with this client group; and the demonstration of thoughtful and sensitive clinical work with a client group whose ‘emerging-adulthood-in-process’ necessitates that therapists do all they can not to get in the way of the complex developmental struggles of the troubled young adults who find their way into therapy.