Parent-Focused Child Therapy

Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function

Contributions by Elizabeth Berger M.D, Ester Cohen Ph.D, Stephen Seligman DMH, Susan Coates Ph.D, Daniel Schechter, Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick, Peter Deri Ph.D, Ionas Sapountzis, Etan Lwow M.D, Sharon Kozberg Ph.D, Judith Harel Ph.D, Hayuta Kaplan, Raya Patt, Arietta Slade Ph.D, Josef Prinz Psy.D, James Lock M.D. Ph. D Edited by Carol Wachs, Linda Jacobs

Publication date:

24 August 2006

Length of book:

356 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780765704689

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading psychotherapists with specialties in family therapy. Carrol Wachs and Linda Jacobs tap into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in therapy situations. The collected essays in this book, from renowned psychotherapists, focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity, and reflection in dealing with children in therapy. Parent-Focused Child Therapy is especially attractive given its currency, integrating relational theory, attachment theory and infant research.

Part 1 Parent-focused Treatment
Chapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on Chapters
Chapter 3 Managing Childhood Behavior
Chapter 4 Parental Level of Awareness
Part 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath
Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
Chapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11
Part 8 Common Treatment Situations
Chapter 9 The Initial Meetings
Chapter 10 The Vulnerable Child
Chapter 11 The Vulnerable Parent
Chapter 12 Working with Easting Disorders
Chapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition Model
Chapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing Parents
Part 15 Developing Refelctive Functions
Chapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting Factor
Chapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect Regulation
Chapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills

The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children—an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As a whole, the book will provide the advanced reader with insight and guidance on working with parents and their children in the clinical setting.