Identity Renegotiation 1 DRAFT—PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION DRAFT—PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION Running Head: IDENTITY RENEGOTIATION Identity Renegotiation Counseling

Erik Erikson’s identity construct became popular in psychoanalytic thought and related mental health movements of the mid-20th Century, but in the therapy community it became marginalized by the popularity of cognitive and behavioral interventions. Recently, critics both within the mental health professions and in the larger community have criticized available models for intervention. This paper suggests emphasizing identity as a focus for intervention and proposes an intervention strategy addressing the co-construction of identities: Identity Renegotiation Counseling