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 essays in this book, from renowned psychotherapists, focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity, and reflection in dealing with children in therapy. Parent-Focused Child Therapy is especially attractive given its currency, integrating relational theory, attachment theory and infant research. --- from the publisher List of Contributors: Elizabeth Berger M.D.; Ester Cohen Ph.D.; Stephen Seligman DMH.; Susan Coates Ph.D.; Daniel Schechter M.D.; Kerry Kelly Novick; Jack Novick; Peter Deri Ph.D.; Ionas Sapountzis Ph.D.; Ester Cohen Ph.D.; Etan Lwow M.D.; Sharon Kozberg Ph.D.; Judith Harel Ph.D.; Hayuta Kaplan,; Raya Patt; Arietta Slade Ph.D.; Josef Prinz Psy.D; James Lock M.D. Ph. D. Contents: * Parent-focused Treatment o Introduction and Commentary on Chapters o Managing Childhood Behavior Elizabeth Berger M.D. o Parental Level of Awareness Ester Cohen Ph.D. * Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath o Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma Stephen Seligman DMH. o Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11 Susan Coates Ph.D. & Daniel Schechter M.D. * Common Treatment Situations o The Initial Meetings Kerry Kelly Novick & Jack Novick o The Vulnerable Child Peter Deri Ph.D. o The Vulnerable Parent Ionas Sapountzis Ph.D. o Working with Easting Disorders James Lock M.D. Ph. D. o The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition Model Ester Cohen Ph.D. & Etan Lwow M.D. o Working with Divorced and Divorcing Parents Sharon Kozberg Ph.D. * Developing Refelctive Functions o Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting Factor Judith Harel Ph.D. Hayuta Kaplan & Raya Patt o Representation, Symbolization and Affect Regulation Arietta Slade Ph.D. o Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills Josef Prinz Psy.D About the Authors: Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York. Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City. |