This book explores whether children and young people—aged nine to fifteen years—suffering from depression could be helped using brief, focused psychodynamic psychotherapy together with parent work and family therapy. The conclusions are based on work done at the Tavistock Clinic and other centers in Athens and Helsinki. The chapters describe the work done by the clinicians and include the scientific papers that emerged from the work. Most of the children and teens studies showed a noticeable improvement, and it is hoped that the publication of this work will encourage the use of similar approaches to working in the field. --- from the publisher Table of Contents: SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
FOREWORD I Introduction
1 The Childhood Depression Project, Judith Trowell & Emilia Dowling
2 Background: a short history of the recognition of childhood depression, Judith Trowell II Individual therapy
3 The wake-up call of adolescence: time-limited clinical work with three young people, Agathe Gretton
4 Lost boys: aspects of projective identification, countertransference, and enactment with three boys, Jane Cassidy
5 Affirming a sense of agency: the influence of supervision in once-weekly, time-limited work with a depressed child patient, Jackie Hall
6 Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in adolescent depression: two case studies, Stelios Christogiorgos, Eleni Stavrou, Marie-Ange Widdershoven-Zervaki, & John Tsiantis
7 The work with the parents alongside individual therapy with the children/young people: present and absent parents, Gillian Miles
8 Some reflections on the individual therapy: themes and interventions, Maria Rhode III Family therapy
9 The family therapists’ experience, Sue McNab, David Pentecost, Vicky Bianco, & Henia Goldberg
10 Systemic supervision in the context of a research project: the supervisors’ perspective, Sara Barratt & Emilia Dowling
11 Co-morbidity: childhood depression and anxiety in family therapy, David Campbell IV Research
12 Childhood depression: a place for psychotherapy, Judith Trowell & Ilan Joffe
13 Psychodynamic and family psychotherapy for young people with major depression: preliminary findings on their psychosocial adjustment, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Valeria Pomini, Vlasis Tomaras, Olga Maratos, Effie Layiou-Lignos, & John Tsiantis
14 Depressed children and young people: treatment outcome and changes in family functioning in individual and family therapy, Finn Ferdinand Garoff, Kati Heinonen, Anu-Katriina Pesonen, & Fredrik Almqvist V Conclusions
15 Reflections and thoughts: learning from the study, Judith Trowell & Emilia Dowling GLOSSARY
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