Description
Book SynopsisIntegrate psychotherapy with residential treatment to achieve positive results for patients in group care!
This book addresses the complex issues that arise in the effort to provide individual therapy in group care settings. It reviews classical case material, presents contemporary case studies, and examines practical and theoretical issues important to the effective delivery of treatment to individuals living in residential care.
Noted experts who have been associated with The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, share knowledge garnered from years of real-world experience to help you stay at the leading edge of the field and provide effective individual treatment to your clients in long- and short-term residential care.
Psychotherapy in Group Care: Making Life Good Enough includes practical and theoretical chapters exploring important aspects of the group care paradigm. The book:
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Table of Contents
- Foreword: Psychotherapy and the Milieu: Issues Posed for Confidentiality and for the Therapist’s Participation in the Therapeutic Environment
- Preface: Child and Milieu: Tensions Between Group and Individual Care
- Is Life Good Enough? A Close Race to Make It Better
- Parallel Dimensions in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Analytic Work
- Reconsidering Classic Case Studies: The Mechanical Boy and the Space Child
- Alice’s Loss of Wonderland
- The Integration of Psychotherapy and Residential Treatment in an Intensive Short-Term Treatment Program: Part I. Structural Considerations
- The Integration of Psychotherapy and Residential Treatment in an Intensive Short-Term Treatment Program: Part II. Theoretical Considerations
- The Integration of Psychotherapy and Residential Treatment in an Intensive Short-Term Treatment Program: Part III. Implementation as Therapy Begins
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
