Parent-Focused Child Therapy Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function

by Wachs, Carol; Jacobs, Linda; M.D, Elizabeth Berger; Ph.D, Ester Cohen; DMH, Stephen Seligman; Ph.D, Susan Coates; Schechter, Daniel; Novick, Kerry Kelly; Novick, Jack; Ph.D, Peter Deri; Sapountzis, Ionas; M.D, Etan Lwow; Ph.D, Sharon Kozberg; Ph.D, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780765704689
• ISBN10: 0765704684
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780765704689
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-24
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
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Summary

This collection of essays from leading psychotherapists taps into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in solving their children's problems. Wachs and Jacobs focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity and reflection.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
Carol Wachs
Linda Jacobs
Part I: Parent-Focused Treatment	17	(48)
Managing Childhood: Behavior Experts and the Eclipse of Intimacy	19	(20)
Elizabeth Berger
``Parental Level of Awareness'': An Organizing Scheme of Parents' Belief Systems as a Guide in Parent Therapy	39	(26)
Esther Cohen
Part II: Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath	65	(46)
Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma	67	(26)
Stephen Seligman
Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11: Relational and Developmental Perspectives	93	(18)
Susan Coates
Daniel Schechter
Part III: Common Treatment Situations	111	(114)
The Initial Meetings	113	(24)
Kerry Kelly Novick
Jack Novick
The Vulnerable Child: Working with the Parents of Preschoolers	137	(16)
Peter Deri
The Vulnerable Parent: The Case of a Five-Year-Old Boy and His Family	153	(16)
Ionas Sapountzis
Involving Parents in the Care of Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders	169	(24)
James Lock
The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition Model: Promoting Responsibility and Cooperativeness in Disturbed Adolescents Who Resist Treatment	193	(16)
Esther Cohen
Etan Lwow
Therapy with Divorced and Divorcing Parents	209	(16)
Sharon Kozberg
Part IV: Developing Reflective Functions	225	(108)
Reflective Functioning as a Change-Promoting Factor in Mother-Child and Father-Child Psychotherapy	227	(34)
Judith Harel
Hayuta Kaplan
Raya Patt
Representation, Symbolization, and Affect Regulation in the Concomitant Treatment of a Mother and Child	261	(26)
Arietta Slade
From Conflict to Cooperation: Hadarim, a School-Based Adlerian Parenting Program in Israel	287	(46)
Joseph Prinz
Index	333	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	345