Behind the One-Way Mirror: Psychotherapy And Children - Softcover

Fishman, Katharine Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059509452X ISBN 13: 9780595094523

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

What actually happens in therapy with children? This comprehensive, moving book presents vivid portraits of therapists in action, along with insightful accounts of the major therapeutic orientations."Richly informative and warmly written. Ms Fishman gives us under one cover both a valuable resource and a fascinating narrative."Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction

About this title

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.

From the Inside Flap

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

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059509452X
• ISBN 13: 9780595094523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 580