Behind the One-Way Mirror: Psychotherapy and Children - Hardcover

Fishman, Katharine Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553078860 ISBN 13: 9780553078862

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995

Synopsis

There isn't a child alive who isn't troubled at times. Parents, teachers, caregivers, and all those who work with children constantly encounter behavior that puzzles, disturbs, or actively alarms them. Confronted with a troubled child, how does one assess the seriousness of a problem? Determine whether it's just "a phase" or the real thing? Whether professional help is needed, and what form it should take? How does one find an appropriate therapist, someone not only qualified but with the right "fit" for both the child and the parents? What actually happens in therapy with children?
This comprehensive book not only answers questions such as these, it also presents in astonishingly vivid form real therapy sessions in action, so that readers will find themselves participating in the process of therapy. Insightful presentations of the major therapeutic orientations used in treating children - psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, family systems therapy, and the often controversial issue of psychopharmacology - give us both the underpinnings of these approaches and vivid portraits of therapists at work.

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About the Author

Katharine Davis Fishman, author of The Computer Establishment and numerous articles in leading magazines, is a past president of the American society of Journalists and Authors. her article on problem adoptions, which derived from research done for this book and was a cover story in The Atlantic, received the National Media Award for magazine writing from the American Psychological Association.

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a child alive who isn't troubled at times. Parents, teachers, caregivers, and all those who work with children constantly encounter behavior that puzzles, disturbs, or actively alarms them. Confronted with a troubled child, how does one assess the seriousness of a problem? Determine whether it's "just a phase" or the real thing? Whether professional help is needed and what form it should take? How does one find an appropriate therapist? What actually happens in therapy with children?

This unique book answers questions like these by taking readers into therapists' offices to witness actual therapy sessions with children. Their problems range from mild to severe: from school difficulties or reactions to divorce to hyperactivity, anxiety disorders, anorexia, depression, autism; and these sessions are so vivid, insightful, and moving that readers will find themselves participating in the process of therapy itself. Katharine Davis Fishman's comprehensive presentations of the major th

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553078860
• ISBN 13: 9780553078862
• Binding: Hardcover