Community-Based Psychotherapy with Young People: Evidence and Innovation in Practice

by Baruch,Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780415215107
• ISBN10: 0415215102
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In the last 50 years, emotional and behavioral problems among young people have increased dramatically, yet only a minority is receiving treatment. Many young people who would benefit from psychotherapy are reluctant to be treated in traditional clinical settings, and it is doubtful whether these settings are the most effective way to deal with these patients. Community-Based Psychotherapy with Young People offers a fresh perspective on working with difficult groups of patients. It addresses the difficulties in engaging with and treating young people with mental health problems, describing approaches and techniques for working with them, and taking into account the developmental, psychiatric, psychological, and biological issues of those in need of help. Part 1 covers the likely problems and difficulties encountered in such work, addressing issues such as engaging young men who are depressed and hard to reach. Part 2 describes services for high priority groups of young people, including those who aredisabled or from ethnic minority backgrounds. Part 3 describes how the outcome of the work is evaluated and considers the impact present developments in child and adolescent mental health may have on community-based organizations. This book will appeal to professionals working in more traditional settings who want to explore different ways of working with young patients, including psychotherapists, counselors, clinical psychologists, social workers, and mental health service planners.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
List of figures	ix
Foreword	x
Peter Wilson
Foreword	xiv
Peter Fonagy
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(12)
Geoffrey Barugh
PART I Theoretical and practical aspects of engaging and maintaining young people in treatment	13	(50)
Engaging troubled adolecents in six-session psychodynamic therapy	15	(10)
George Mak-Pearce
Why come, why come back: developing and maintaining a long-term therapeutic alliance with young people who have had a psychotic breakdown	25	(10)
Olivia Amiel
Absence and inertia in the transference: some problems encountered when treating young men who have become developmentally stuck	35	(13)
James Rose
The process of engaging young people with severe developmental disturbance in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: patterns of practice	48	(15)
Geoffrey Baruch
PART II Services for high priority groups of young people	63	(80)
Psychotherapy with young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in different community-based settings	65	(10)
Rajinder K. Bains
The developmental and emotional implications behind the use young people make of family planning services	75	(14)
Mellany Ambrose
Working in a school for severely physically disabled children	89	(14)
David Trevatt
Psychotherapy with bereaved adolescents	103	(12)
Suzanne Blundell
Providing a psychotherapy service in a school for the emotionally and behaviourally disturbed child	115	(13)
Caroline Essenhigh
The treatment of severe antisocial behaviour in young people	128	(15)
Charles Wells
PART III The evaluation of mental health outcome	143	(30)
The routine evaluation of mental health outcome at a community-based psychotherapy centre for young people	145	(17)
Geoffrey Baruch
Pasco Fearon
The clinician's experience of implementing audit and its impact on the clinical process in the treatment of troubled young people	162	(11)
Zora Radonic
PART IV Conclusion	173	(8)
Conclusion: what is the future for community-based psychotherapy for young people?	175	(6)
Geoffrey Baruch
Index	181