My Basket 0 item - £0.00

An Independent Practitioner's Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Playing with Ideas

Author(s) : Deirdre Dowling

Table of Contents

Foreword Ann Horne & Monica Lanyado
Preface
Introduction

Part 1: Mapping the territory
1. The therapeutic process
2. Creating a therapeutic setting
3. Making an assessment and starting the work
4. Approaches to child psychotherapy with children of different ages
5. Reflections on brief psychotherapy
6. Engaging with parents
7. Pleasures and challenges of working in a team

Part 2: Hard times: the challenges of child psychotherapy
8. Facing despair, doubt and anger – and finding hope
9. Learning from mistakes, losing my way and the value of supervision
10. Working towards an ending

Part 3: Therapeutic work with children and parents in crisis
11. Behind closed doors: therapeutic work with children and adolescents living with mentally ill and vulnerable parents
12. Therapeutic work with children whose parents have separated or divorced

Part 4: Taking child psychotherapy outside the psychotherapy room
13. New pathways: applying psychotherapy to other settings

Final thoughts: playing with ideas
Index