Bridges of Compassion Insights and Interventions in Developmental Disabilities

by Campbell, Alex; Ladner, Lorne

• ISBN13: 9780765701312
• ISBN10: 0765701316
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

The authors have worked together at the Devereux Foundation -- a national provider of residential and outpatient psychiatric, educational, and support services for developmentally disabled children and adults. They bring the authority of experience to their particular ways of integrating an insight-oriented psychodynamic approach with the concrete and structured elements of positive behavioral programming, as illustrated in user-friendly fashion by their nineteen case-study chapters. A welcome resource for all who struggle for normalization and harmony in the lives of children diagnosed anywhere on the developmental disability spectrum.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
Taking the Bite Out of Teasing: Covert Reinforcement Helps a Girl Cope with Teasing	1	(8)
You've Got the Power: Michael Helps Create His Own Anger Management Program	9	(12)
When Attention is an Emergency: Psychosocial Development and Attentional Needs	21	(10)
A Legend in his Lifetime: A Family Systems Tale of the Forest and the Trees	31	(12)
Emerging from the Autistic Shell: Psychodynamic Understanding and Discrete Trial Learning Help an Austistic Boy Develop His First Friendships	43	(10)
Mourning What is Gone: A Psychodynamic Approach with an Autistic Patient	53	(10)
Mirrored: From Aggression to a More Positive Sense of Self	63	(10)
The Order of the Fist and the Hand: Imagery-Based Character Education as a Replacement for Gang Identification	73	(10)
The Order of the Fist and the Hand---Part II: Social Issues, Ritual, and Imagery in Group Process	83	(10)
Dramatic Overtures: Working with the Histrionic Personality	93	(12)
Aggression and Projective Identification: Working with Splitting and Projective Identification	105	(14)
Truth or Consequences: A Values-Based Behavioral Approach	119	(12)
When Foul is Fair: Reinterpreting Negative Behaviors and Engaging the Child's Curiosity and Playfulness	131	(10)
Your Space Bubble and Mine: Working with Boundaries and Self-Other Differentiation	141	(8)
The Trials of Toilet Training: Behavioral, Developmental, and Practical Considerations	149	(10)
An Acceptance of Reality: Jungian Reflections in Psychotherapy with a Young Psychotic Man	159	(10)
Nobody Can Tell Me What To Do: Working with the Rosenberg IBP Character Style Model	169	(12)
Prepetration: The Pervasive Dilemma of Sexual Abuse	181	(10)
Compassion's Shadow: The Dangers of Countertransference	191	(12)
Appendices	203	(10)
Glossary	213	(10)
References	223	(8)
Index	231