Psychotherapies With Children and Adolescents

by O'Brien, John D., M.D.; Pilowsky, Daniel J.; Lewis, Owen W.

• ISBN13: 9780880484060
• ISBN10: 0880484063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-07-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

Summary

This volume demonstrates how psychoanalytic techniques can be modified to meet the therapeutic needs of children and adolescents in specific clinical situations. Extensively illustrated with case histories, each chapter deals with specific interventions designed to fit particular circumstances facing today's children and adolescents.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Psychotherapeutic Process With Children
Children With Separation Anxiety Disorder	p. 3
Self-Destructive Preschool Children	p. 27
Timid and Withdrawn Children	p. 51
Paternal Absence: Psychotherapeutic Considerations in Boys	p. 71
Aggressive Children	p. 91
Children With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Their Parents	p. 109
School-Age Psychotic Children and Their Parents	p. 125
The Psychotherapeutic Process With Adolescents
Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Interpersonal-Systemic View	p. 145
Bulimia in the Older Adolescent: An Analytic Perspective to a Behavioral Problem	p. 171
The Anorexic Adolescent	p. 189
Depressed Adolescents	p. 209
Older Adolescents With Academic Achievement Problems	p. 231
The Psychotherapeutic Process With Both Children and Adolescents in Special Circumstances
Psychotherapy With Children of Divorce	p. 255
Children of Affluent Parents	p. 269
The Psychotherapeutic Process in Special Circumstances
Short-Term Psychotherapy With Children in Foster Care	p. 291
Group Psychotherapy With Children in Psychiatric Hospitals	p. 313
Index	p. 337
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