Assessment in Child Psychotherapy

by Rustin, Margaret; Quagliata, Emanuela

• ISBN13: 9780715628935
• ISBN10: 0715628933
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

This text describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and wider school and community context. Individual chapters address both clinical method and a variety of clinical problems, including work with very young children and their parents, severe deprivation and family breakdown, developmental delay, and more serious psychological illnesses of childhood. This book will be of help to child and adolescent mental health professionals and to a wider public interested in the development of children and in how help can be provided when things go wrong.

Author Biography

Margaret Rustin is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where she has been Head of Child Psychotherapy since 1986. She has pioneered and supported the extension of training in psychoanalytic observational approaches to training across the United Kingdom and in a number of other countries. She has coauthored, with Michael Rustin, Narratives of Love and Loss and Mirror to Nature, and has co-edited Closely Observed Infants, as well as Psychotic States in Children and Assessment in Psychotherapy.

Emanuela Quagliata is a child psychotherapist and psychoanalyst and a member of the Italian Association for Psychoanaltyic Child Psychotherapy. She edited and contributed to Neonatici visti da vicino (1993), and edited the earlier Italian version of this volume, Un buon incontro (1994).

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Assessing Seriously Disturbed Children
Assessing Children with Communication Disorders	p. 9
Borderline Children: Differentiating Disturbance and Deficit	p. 33
Severe Eating Difficulties: Attacks on Life	p. 51
Traumatised Children and Their Families
What Follows Family Breakdown? Assessing Children who Have Experienced Deprivation, Trauma and Multiple Loss	p. 74
Assessing Sexually Abused Children	p. 95
Family Approaches
An Under Fives' Counselling Service and its Relations to Questions of Assessment	p. 108
Family Explorations	p. 120
Adolescents
Assessing Adolescents: Finding a Space to Think	p. 145
Assessing the Risk of Self Harm in Adolescents: A Psychoanalytical Perspective	p. 162
Subject Index	p. 177
Index of Names	p. 180
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