(P/B) WORK WITH PARENTS: PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Παρουσίαση

«The decision to publish a volume on work with parents in this EFPP monograph series is much to be welcomed. It will go some way to remedy the relative neglect of systematic thinking about this important area of clinical practice and to mount an intellectual challenge to more systemically based family interventions. The range of authors is suggestive of one of the reasons for the absence of much published work in their area, for it draws our attention to the multidisciplinary nature of the work. Included are contributions from child and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts. These different professional groups very often pursue their scholarly debates within professionally defined journals and distinct professional bodies. It is therefore a great pleasure to introduce a book in which a wide range of developments within psychoanalytically based work with children and families across Europe are represented. [...]
Three things stand out for me in the volume as a whole. First, the rich range and depth of clinical experience available to be pondered by readers makes this book a treasured source for clinicians, and also an excellent resource for training. Second, the service development implications: resources for adequate work with parents are often inadequate, despite all the apparent political will to invest in childrens' mental health. Last, taken as a whole, the book is a hopeful record of work in progress at the end of the century in many centres. The writers share a powerful commitment to the relevance and value of psychoanalytically based work, and they provide heartening evidence of the resilience and intellectual vitality of strands within this tradition.» (Margaret Rustin, from her Foreword)

Περιεχόμενα

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
FOREWORD Margaret Rustin
INTRODUCTION John Tsiantis
1. Dialogues with parents
Margaret Rustin
2. Therapeutic space for re-creating the child in the mind of the parents
Viviane Green
3. Keeping the child in mind: thoughts on work with parents of children in therapy
Ann Horne
4. Parental therapy - in theory and practice
Marianne Engelse Frick
5. Work with parents of psychotic children within a day-care therapeutic unit setting
Olga Maratos and Athanassios Alexandridis
6. Working with parents of autistic children
Didier Houzel
7. Helping children through treatment of parenting: the model of mother/infant psychotherapy
Bertrand Cramer
8. Working with parents of sexually abused children
Gillian Miles
REFERENCES
INDEX

Edited by John Tsiantis (Senior Editor), Siv Boalt Boethious, Birgit Hallerfors, Ann Horne, Lydia Tischler