Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents: Today's Challenge

ISBN-13: 9781855757080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 262 str.

John Tsiantis; Judith Trowell

Opis

This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have taken up this challenge and have undertaken clinical research to look at the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time-limited, brief, non-intensive ways of working, so are applicable in many settings and can therefore be generalized to other clinical teams. The populations worked with are diverse and often present mainstream services with refractory clinical problems so an applied psychoanalytic approach is well worth trying, given the evidence in this volume.

There is in addition an excellent theoretical chapter on the issues for such clinical research from Stephen Shirk which merits consideration by those wanting to evaluate their own work.

This book has had a long gestation but it is an important contribution to child and adolescent mental health services to ensure the full menu of interventions is retained, especially in these times of financial restraint, increasing family distress and concerns about inadequate parenting, family breakdown and troublesome adolescents.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Child and adolescent psychotherapy research: Clinical applications -- Integrating research in a clinical setting for child psychotherapy: A case study about facilitating and hindering factors in psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- What does a manual contribute? -- Focused systematic case studies: An approach linking clinical work and research -- The Heidelberg study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents -- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD): A field for contemporary psychoanalysis?: Some clinical, conceptual and neurobiological considerations based on the Frankfurt Prevention Study 1 -- Research on therapeutic processes: In psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents -- Ethical principles in conducting research with children and adolescents

O autorze

Judith Trowell, John Tsiantis