Fostering Friendship: Pair Therapy for Treatment and Prevention

by Selman, Robert L.; Watts, Caroline L.; Schultz, Lynn Hickey

• ISBN13: 9780202360959
• ISBN10: 0202360954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Aldine De Gruyter

Summary

A great number of children and adolescents face a world of violence and isolation. In this book, the members of the Group for the Study of Interpersonal Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston describe in detail an innovative intervention and prevention method, pair therapy, that is designed to address these issues by helping children develop healthy interpersonal relationships.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	vii	(2)
A Context and Orientation	ix
I FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE	3	(74)
1 The Evolution of Pair Therapy	3	(16)
Robert L. Selman
2 Friendship and Belonging	19	(12)
Dennis Barr
3 The Friendship Framework: Tools for the Assessment of Psychosocial Development	31	(22)
Robert L. Selman
Mira Z. Levitt
Lynn Hickey Schultz
4 Toward a Practical Theory	53	(24)
Robert L. Selman
II PAIRS IN PROCESS	77	(90)
5 The Growth of an Intimate Relationship between Preadolescent Girls	77	(24)
Caroline L. Watts
6 Pair Therapy in a Residential Treatment Center for Children and Adolescents	101	(20)
Aimee E. McCullough
Gregory G. Wilkins
Robert L. Selman
7 From Perspective-Taking to Emotion-Making in a Middle School Pair	121	(24)
Michael J. Karcher
8 The Particulars of Pair Supervision	145	(22)
Michael J. Nakkula
Caroline L. Watts
III NEW DIRECTIONS AND NEW CONCEPTS	167	(64)
9 Person-in-Pairs, Pairs-in-Program: Pair Therapy in Different Institutional Contexts	167	(18)
Caroline L. Watts
Michael J. Nakkula
Dennis Barr
10 Pair Play Therapy with Toddlers and Preschoolers	185	(22)
Steven R. Kane
Pamela A. Raya
Catherine C. Ayoub
11 Multicultural Pair Counseling and the Development of Expanded Worldviews	207	(24)
Michael J. Karcher
Michael J. Nakkula
IV EVALUATION	231	(74)
12 A Comprehensive Framework for Evaluating Pairs	231	(20)
Lynn Hickey Schultz
13 A Developmental and Thematic Analysis of Pair Counseling with Preadolescent School-Girls	251	(22)
Lynn Hickey Schultz
14 Disconnections between Psychosocial Competence and Interpersonal Performance in a School Bully	273	(32)
Lynn Hickey Schultz
Robert L. Selman
References	305	(8)
Index	313