Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays from leading psychotherapists taps into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in solving their children's problems. Wachs and Jacobs focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity and reflection.
Trade ReviewThe 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. * Clinical Social Work Journal, July 26, 2009 *
Table of ContentsPart 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
