Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Making the Conscious Unconscious

ISBN-13: 9780367403829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 334 str.

Peter Blake

Opis

Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical, this book clarifies complex theory while giving practical advice for clinicians through a nuts and bolts description of how to interview parents, emotionally assess a child and adolescent, set up a consulting room and conduct a therapy session.

Spis treści

Introduction 01. The analytic legacy 02. Conceptual framework 03. Psychoanalytic observation 04. Referral and initial interview 05. Individual assessment 06. Developmental considerations 07. Assessment for therapy 08. Working with parents 09. The setting, physical and mental, and limits 10. Interpretation: A Case for the Abolition of Interpretation to Children 11. The role of play 12. The challenges of play 13. Playing with Transference and Countertransference 14. Playing with Transference and Countertransference 15. Adolescents 16. Endings Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

Peter Blake is a clinical psychologist and Tavistock-trained child psychotherapist. He has 45 years of experience in working in the area of child and family mental health, in England and Australia. Peter is currently Director of the Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Sydney), a professional body that offers online training in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Peter also works in private practice in Sydney.