Children in Family Contexts, Second Edition Perspectives on Treatment

by Combrinck-Graham, Lee

• ISBN13: 9781593852634
• ISBN10: 1593852630
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-16
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this text and professional resource provides a practical guide to family-based therapy for childhood emotional and behavioral problems. Presented are innovative assessment and treatment strategies that take into account children's developmental needs, different family forms, health and environmental challenges, and relationships with larger systems. Reflecting 15 years of clinical advances and the changing contexts of family life, the second edition features many new chapters and new authors. New topics include gene-environment interactions, integrating family therapy with child pharmacotherapy, working with foster families, and treating disrupted attachments.

Author Biography

Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Her training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic under Salvador Minuchin's direction led her always to wonder, "How can you work with children without their families?" She is still wondering more than 30 years after finishing her training, but she has learned that many do not see it this way; that question became the basis for this book. Dr. Combrinck-Graham lives and works in Fairfield County, Connecticut, a county with some of the greatest wealth in the United States, yet her work as a psychiatric consultant to family service agencies takes her into inner-city homes and schools. This work, though often executed with a prescription pad, affirms daily the importance of social context in understanding and treating the most confounding of child and adolescent emotional and behavioral problems.

Table of Contents

PART I. CHILD MENTAL HEALTH FUNDAMENTALS IN FAMILY CONTEXT	1	(112)
The Child in Family Therapy: Guidelines for Active Engagement across the Age Span	3	(23)
Tanya B. White
Richard Chasin
Development in Family Contexts	26	(25)
Geri Fox
Guidelines for a Family Assessment Protocol	51	(20)
Edith Catlin Lawrence
Family Therapy in an Age of Biological Psychiatry: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations	71	(19)
Allan M. Josephson
The Biology of Family Culture	90	(23)
Douglas A. Kramer
PART II. DIFFERENT FAMILY STRUCTURES	113	(108)
Two-Parent Families, or How to Love a Two-Headed Monster	115	(27)
Douglas A. Kramer
Successful African American Single-Parent Families	142	(21)
Marion Lindblad-Goldberg
Remarried Systems	163	(27)
Mary F. Whiteside
Children in Foster Families	190	(31)
Kim Sumner-Mayer
PART III. CHILDREN IN FAMILIES FACING SPECIFIC CHALLENGES	221	(110)
Children with Chronic Illness and Physical Disabilities	223	(19)
Judith A. Libow
Families with Children with Disrupted Attachments	242	(23)
Lee Combrinck-Graham
Susan B. McKenna
Children of Parents with Mental Illness	265	(27)
Alan Cooklin
The Invisible Illness: Children in Alcoholic Families	292	(20)
Stuart A. Copans
Families Coping with the Death of a Parent: The Therapist's Role	312	(19)
Joan C. Barth
PART IV. FAMILIES AND LARGER SYSTEMS	331	(100)
The Family's Own System: The Symbolic Context of Health	333	(23)
David V. Keith
Partners for Success: A Collaborative Project in School-Based Mental Health Practice and Training	356	(26)
Phebe Sessions
Verba Fanolis
Children in Placement: A Place for Family Therapy	382	(26)
Ann Itzkowitz
The Family and the Legal System: The Search for an Intelligent Integration	408	(23)
G. Pirooz Sholevar
PART V. LARGER ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN IN FAMILIES	431	(76)
A Model for Disrupting Cycles of Violence in Families with Young Children	433	(23)
John Brendler
Of Two Worlds: Working with Children in Immigrant Families	456	(23)
Veronica Barenstein
Ema Genijovich
The Many Cultures of Child Protection	479	(28)
Begum Maitra
Index	507