Treating Troubled Children and Their Families
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Title: Treating Troubled Children and Their Families
Author: Ellen F Wachtel
ISBN: 9780898620078
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Psychology 1535990
Publisher Description:
Drawing on clinical insights from family systems thinking, psychodynamic play therapy, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives, this significant new work presents an innovative approach to therapeutic work with young children and their families. The author brings a thoroughly integrative orientation to bear in her understanding of how parents and children get entangled in patterns that cause grief to both generations. Her approach - "child-in-family" therapy - although steeped in the systems outlook, offers a thorough consideration of the unique characteristics of the child in trouble and the specific developmental obstacles that he or she faces. This strategy enhances family therapy at times when a child's difficulties begin to take on a life of their own, and also brings the power of family systems thinking to individual efforts to help young children in trouble. Beginning with an introduction to the author's methods, the first chapter sets forth a rationale for combining the most valuable aspects of systems therapy with individual psychotherapy approaches. With much clinical detail, the book first explains how to effectively conduct meetings with parents alone, emphasizing ways to draw out parents' concerns about their children and distinguish distortions and projections from true observations. The author also demonstrates the use of a valuable element from family therapy - a positive orientation that helps parents notice their children's strengths. Then, in addition to offering specific guidance on how to conduct family sessions with very young children, Ellen Wachtel gives family therapists the tools they need to begin including individual sessions with children as part and parcel offamily therapy. She also shares with readers numerous concrete suggestions on how to interact with young children in ways that foster emotional expressiveness. In step-by-step detail, this book demonstrates how therapists can organize and evaluate the information gleaned through
Author: Ellen F Wachtel
ISBN: 9780898620078
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Psychology 1535990
Publisher Description:
Drawing on clinical insights from family systems thinking, psychodynamic play therapy, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives, this significant new work presents an innovative approach to therapeutic work with young children and their families. The author brings a thoroughly integrative orientation to bear in her understanding of how parents and children get entangled in patterns that cause grief to both generations. Her approach - "child-in-family" therapy - although steeped in the systems outlook, offers a thorough consideration of the unique characteristics of the child in trouble and the specific developmental obstacles that he or she faces. This strategy enhances family therapy at times when a child's difficulties begin to take on a life of their own, and also brings the power of family systems thinking to individual efforts to help young children in trouble. Beginning with an introduction to the author's methods, the first chapter sets forth a rationale for combining the most valuable aspects of systems therapy with individual psychotherapy approaches. With much clinical detail, the book first explains how to effectively conduct meetings with parents alone, emphasizing ways to draw out parents' concerns about their children and distinguish distortions and projections from true observations. The author also demonstrates the use of a valuable element from family therapy - a positive orientation that helps parents notice their children's strengths. Then, in addition to offering specific guidance on how to conduct family sessions with very young children, Ellen Wachtel gives family therapists the tools they need to begin including individual sessions with children as part and parcel offamily therapy. She also shares with readers numerous concrete suggestions on how to interact with young children in ways that foster emotional expressiveness. In step-by-step detail, this book demonstrates how therapists can organize and evaluate the information gleaned through