Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function
Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading psychotherapists with specialties in family therapy. Carrol Wachs and Linda Jacobs tap into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in therapy situations. The collected...
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This 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.
1Introduction12Managing childhood : behavior experts and the eclipse of intimacy193"Parental level of awareness" : an organizing scheme of parents' belief systems as a guide in parent therapy394Projective identification and the transgenerational transmission of trauma675Preschoolers' traumatic stress post-9/11 : relational and developmental perspectives936The initial meetings1137The vulnerable child : working with the parents of preschoolers1378The vulnerable parent : the case of a five-year-old boy and his family1539Involving parents in the care of children and adolescents with eating disorders16910The parent-child mutual recognition model : promoting responsibility and cooperativeness in disturbed adolescents who resist treatment19311Therapy with divorced and divorcing parents20912Reflective functioning as a change-promoting factor in mother-child and father-child psychotherapy22713Representation, symbolization, and affect regulation in the concomitant treatment of a mother and child26114From conflict to cooperation : Hadarim, a school-based Adlerian parenting program in Israel287
\ Clinical Social Work JournalThe 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.\ \
