Psychotherapies with Children and Adolescents: Adapting the Psychodynamic Process / Edition 1

by John D. O'Brien, Daniel J. Pilowsky, Owen W. Lewis

Overview

This book explores how psychodynamic therapy may be modified to meet the special circumstances and diagnoses of children and adolescents. The authors broadly share an interpersonal approach to psychotherapy, and address the child's overall development—a sense of self and self-esteem—as well as specific symptoms and problems. Incorporating behavioral, cognitive, and family therapies, these experienced clinicians describe their work with children's problems such as divorce, aggression, absent fathers, social timidity, withdrawal, adolescent depression, eating disorders, and academic under—achievement. Situations that require the therapist to move beyond neutrality to a more active, even authoritative and didactic, stance are described in treating children with ADHD and adolescents with anorexia. Illustrated with clinical material demonstrating interactions between therapist and child, each chapter suggests specific interventions to treat the full range of disorders that afflict present–day youth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765702531
Publisher:	Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.04(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John D. O'Brien, M.D., is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Services, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York. Daniel J. Pilowsky, M.D., is Director of Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital, New York, New York.

Table of Contents

The Psychotherapeutic Process With Children. Children with separation anxiety disorder. Self-destructive preschool children. Timid and withdrawn children. Paternal absence: psychotherapeutic considerations in boys. Aggressive children. Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and their parents. School-age psychotic children and their parents. The Psychotherapeutic Process With Adolescents. Adolescents with borderline personality disorder: an interpersonal-systemic view. Bulimia in the older adolescent: an analytic perspective to a behavioral problem. The anorexic adolescent. Depressed adolescents. Older adolescents with academic achievement problems. The Psychotherapeutic Process With Both Children and Adolescents in Special Circumstances. Psychotherapy with children of divorce. Children of affluent parents. The Psychotherapeutic Process in Special Circumstances. Short-term psychotherapy with children in foster care. Group psychotherapy with children in psychiatric hospitals.

Editorial Reviews

The idea that child and adolescent patients exist in a social context that cannot be ignored is a theme reinforced throughout this book. Another theme is that the treatment of this population requires special flexibility and creativity, springing from a carefully laid foundation of fundamental tenets of psychodynamic treatment. Valuable material is provided about treating children of aggressively upwardly mobile parents who are busy, uninvolved, and have excessively high expectations. The chapters are rich in clinical illustrations which elucidate the principles that are presented.

Carrie Sylvester

Each of 16 contributions describes therapist/child interactions and suggests specific interventions for particular circumstances and problems, among them: separation anxiety disorder, self-destructive preschool children, aggressive children, adolescents with borderline personality disorder, bulimic and anorexic adolescents, children of divorce and of affluent parents, and children in foster care and in psychiatric hospitals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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