Description
This updated edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes:
- additional chapters on neuroscience, work with ‘looked after children’ and with foster parents, working in schools
- enlarged chapters on research, attachment theory, work with parents, and developments in child and adolescent psychotherapy around the world
- chapters on areas of specialist interest including violence, sexual abuse and abusing, trauma, parent-infant psychotherapy, autism, victims of political violence, delinquency and gender dysphoria.
The Handbook remains accessible and jargon-free. It will be a valuable resource for all who work in allied professions where the emotional well-being of children is of concern – health, education, social services – as well as trainee psychotherapists and experienced practitioners.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part 1: Theoretical Foundations. The Roots of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy in Psychoanalysis. Normal Emotional Development. Contributions from Attachment Theory and Research. The Contribution from Neuroscience. Research in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: An Overview. Part 2: Context. The Child Psychotherapist in the Multi-disciplinary Team. Race and Cultural Issues. The International Scene. Part 3: Diversity of Treatments and Settings. The Therapeutic Setting and Process. Individual Psychotherapy: Assessment, Intensive and Non-intensive Work. Brief Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Consultations. How Much Therapy is ‘Good-Enough’? Work with Parents. Parent-infant Psychotherapy. Group Psychotherapy. Working within Schools and Educational Settings. The Challenges of In-patient Work in a Therapeutic Community. Consultation within Residential Care. Part 4: Areas of Specialist Interest. Child Psychotherapy for Children on the Autistic Spectrum. Psychotherapy with Severely Traumatised Children and Adolescents: ‘Far Beyond Words.’ Psychotherapy for Children Looked After by Local Authorities. Working with Foster Carers. Sexual Abuse and Sexual Abusing in Childhood and Adolescence. The Roots of Violence: Theory and Implications for Technique with Children and Adolescents. Work with Children and Adolescents Exposed to Political Violence. Delinquency. Working with People with Eating Disorders: ‘What If I Die Without Knowing Why?’ Gender Identity Dysphoria
