Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 493
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy provides a comprehensive guide to the practice and principles of child and adolescent psychotherapy around the world. Contents include: a brief introduction to the child psychotherapy profession, its history and development; a review of the theory underlying therapeutic practice; an overview of the varied settings in which child psychotherapists work; an analysis of the growth of the profession internationally; an examination of areas of expertise around the world; and a summary of current research in the field. The experienced practitioners contributing to this book come from a diverse range of schools and approaches, providing a well-rounded picture of child and adolescent psychotherapy today. This handbook will provide invaluable guidance to the work and training of child psychotherapists and is an essential resource for anyone working with disturbed children.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 The roots of child and adolescent psychotherapy in psychoanalysis......Page 36
3 Normal emotional development......Page 48
4 Some contributions on attachment theory......Page 60
5 The therapeutic relationship and process......Page 72
6 Some intercultural issues in the therapeutic process......Page 90
7 The child and adolescent psychotherapist and the family......Page 98
8 The therapeutic setting the people and the place......Page 110
9 Research in child and adolescent psychotherapy an overview......Page 122
10 The child and adolescent psychotherapist in the community......Page 144
11 The child and adolescent psychotherapist in a hospital setting......Page 158
12 Therapy and consultation in residential care......Page 176
13 The challenges of in patient work in a therapeutic community......Page 184
14 International developments......Page 200
15 Traditional models and their contemporary use......Page 216
16 Brief psychotherapy and therapeutic consultations how much therapy is good enough......Page 250
17 The group as a healing whole group psychotherapy with children and adolescents......Page 264
18 Brief psychotherapy with infants and their parents......Page 278
19 The treatment of traumatisation in children......Page 292
20 Deprivation and children in care the contribution of child and adolescent psychotherapy......Page 310
21 Delinquency......Page 328
22 The violent child and adolescent......Page 346
23 Sexual abuse and sexual abusing in childhood and adolescence......Page 364
24 Gender identity dysphoria......Page 386
25 Eating disorders......Page 404
26 Psychotherapeutic work with child and adolescent refugees from political violence......Page 422
27 Autism clinical and theoretical issues......Page 446
28 The psychotherapeutic needs of the learning disabled and multiply disabled child......Page 462
Appendix Further information......Page 474
Index......Page 478
sharing is caring!......Page 493