Psychotherapy with young people in care : lost and found / Margaret Hunter.
By: Hunter, Margaret
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BookPublisher: East Sussex : Routledge, 2001Description: xiv, 193 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415191912 .Subject(s): Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment | Child psychotherapyDDC classification: 618.928914 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Whilst there is a wealth of literature on working with children and adolescents, very little focuses on those who are in residential or foster care. Psychotherapy with Young People in Care is a practical guide to working with this group from a psychoanalytic therapeutic perspective.
Drawing on the author's years of experience and illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples, as well as a comprehensive glossary, the book tackles those issues most relevant to those working with children and adolescents:
* the place of psychotherapy in residential/foster care
* ethical considerations: confidentiality and sexual abuse
* particular problems faced by young people: ADHD; trauma; PTSD.
This refreshing and valuable book is an essential teaching text for all those who work with young people in the care system, including child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and social workers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Beginnings -- A view from the bridge -- Confidentiality -- Joseph - a therapy in pictures -- Charlotte -- Child sexual abuse -- The longing in belonging -- Identity in crisis -- Restless children -- Trauma and its treatment -- Epilogue.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. viii)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Beginnings (p. 9)
- First impressions
- What gets communicated
- The psychotherapeutic task
- Debates about interpretation and the ego
- The use of psychotherapy as an assessment
- The importance of preventive work
- 2 A view from the bridge (p. 22)
- Children in transition
- External and internal worlds
- The value of professional alliance
- Deficiencies in practice
- Networking
- Treatment length
- Multiple points of view
- When therapy is not necessary
- 3 Confidentiality (p. 37)
- The work of liaison
- Internal and external links
- The need for seclusion
- Aggression and its containment
- Therapy and the Children Act
- Suicidal ideation
- Sexual, emotional and physical abuse
- Child protection and when therapists have to 'tell'
- 4 Joseph--a therapy in pictures (p. 51)
- The effects of neglect and abuse
- Confidentiality and duty of care
- Defences of denial and omnipotence
- Resilience
- Siblings in therapy
- Interpreting children's pictures
- Super-heroes
- Transference
- Projection of unwanted feelings
- Denial and mistrust
- Progress in therapy
- Partnership
- Therapeutic gains
- 5 Charlotte (p. 70)
- Early deprivation and abuse
- Aggression and fear of retaliation
- Dody and ego boundaries
- Use of the manic defence
- Child's view of sexuality
- The Oedipus complex
- Interpretation and containment
- Rivalry and perversity
- Diagnostic difficulties
- 6 Child sexual abuse (p. 88)
- Defence mechanisms
- Placation and denial
- A legacy of lies
- The role of power and control
- Counter-transference experiences
- Projective identification in abuse
- Bullying
- Rules and boundaries
- Borderline personality disorder
- Dissociation and splitting
- False memory
- Self-abuse
- 7 The longing in belonging (p. 102)
- Analytic neutrality
- Attachment disorders
- Adhesive relationships
- Therapy in transition
- Therapeutic breaks revive earlier losses
- Adaptation of therapy rules in taking things out of sessions
- Identification with the aggressor
- Counter-transference of trauma
- Pacing interpretation
- 8 Identity in crisis (p. 117)
- Damaged attachments
- Negative identifications with parents
- Abusive attachment
- Internalised guilt
- The omnipotent defence
- Persecutory anxiety
- Repetition compulsion
- Splitting
- Reverence for the perpetrator
- Long-term treatment needs
- Resilience
- Mental illness in a parent
- 9 Restless children (p. 137)
- Hyperkinetic disorder
- ADHD
- Medication dilemmas
- Anxiety
- Emotional containment
- Introjection of maternal object
- Greeting cards in therapy
- Joint working with colleagues
- Hyper-vigilance or hyperactivity
- Trans-racial placement
- Self-soothing
- 10 Trauma and its treatment (p. 157)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Necessary caution in treatment
- Multiply traumatised children
- Identification with the aggressor
- Defences of mistrust, denial, control and denigration
- Traumatic memories during therapy
- Double deprivation
- Disorientation as a defence
- Bullying and re-enactment of abuse
- Trauma in the professionals
- Conflicts acted out in the network
- Therapy setting is crucial
- Idealisation as a necessary angel
- Ending and looking back
- Epilogue (p. 172)
- Adaptation of technique
- Interpretations in positive mode
- Destructive defences
- Joint working
- Long-term therapy
- Weekly and twice-weekly therapy
- A child's capacity for linking
- Lost and found
- Glossary (p. 176)
- Training schools of child psychotherapy (p. 182)
- References (p. 183)
- Index (p. 187)