An independent practitioner's introduction to child and adolescent psychotherapy : playing with ideas /

An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas is a comprehensive guide to child and adolescent psychotherapy, taking the practitioner from the initial meeting through the therapeutic process with young people of different ages, to the endin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dowling, Deirdre (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Independent psychoanalytic approaches with children and adolescents
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2093507
Table of Contents:
  • The therapeutic process
  • Creating a therapeutic setting
  • Making an assessment and starting the work
  • Approaches to child psychotherapy with children of different ages
  • Reflections on brief psychotherapy
  • Engaging with parents
  • Pleasures and challenges of working in a team
  • Facing despair, doubt and anger, and finding hope
  • Learning from mistakes, losing my way, and the value of supervision
  • Working towards an ending
  • Behind closed doors : therapeutic work with children and adolescents living with mentally ill and vulnerable parents
  • Therapeutic work with children whose parents have separated or divorced
  • New pathways : applying psychotherapy to other settings.