Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work - Softcover

Kerry Kelly Novick; Jack Novick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076570112X ISBN 13: 9780765701121

Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Basing their work on the idea that psychoanalytic therapy and technique require more rather than less from the therapist, the Novicks explore the crucial role of parents' work in child and adolescent treatment. They show that child and adolescent therapies have two goals_restoring the child to progressive development and rebuilding the parent-child relationship as a lifelong resource. With vivid clinical examples, this book illustrates the expanded range of clinical techniques used with parents to establish an alliance at each phase of treatment.

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Review:

For far too long parents have been denied their rightful place as partners in therapeutic work on behalf of their children. The Novicks advocate unequivocally for their inclusion when working with children of every age and in every phase of development. There is much to be learned from their model and the many clinical illustrations they provide in this invaluable contribution to a neglected area of practice.--Denia Barrett, Editor, Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and Applied

Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Kerry and Jack Novick is an extraordinarily important contribution. Their work effectively counters the decades-old resistance to caring work with parents by child and adolescent psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Their work underscores the inevitable ongoing interaction between parent functioning and child development.--Leon Hoffman M.D.

The book is a highly practical treatise on techniques to involve parents meaningfully in their child's therapy.--Elissa P. Benedek M.D., author of How to Help Your Child Overcome Your Divorce "Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Fall 2007) "

This book represents a turning point in our child psychiatry practice which legitimizes a shift that many of us have adopted clinically several years ago. It should be read, discussed and improved upon by all child and adolescent practictioners.--2008, Vol 17 No. 2, pp97-99 "Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry "

In Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work, psychoanalysts Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick offer a theoretically rigorous yet highly practical and intuitively appealing framework for involving parents meaningfully in their children's therapy. One of this volume's many strengths lies in its use of numerous salient and well-crafted clinical illustrations derived from the authors' extensive clinical and supervisory experience. It also offers further elaboration and new applications of the Novicks' earlier research on the "two-systems" model. Indeed, because the work is so well written, one nearly loses sight of the fact that it represents a bold new vision of the role of parents in the psychoanalytic treatment of child and adolescent patients.--Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., Wayne State University School of Social Work; author of Psychodynamic Social Work

About the Author:

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick are child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysts on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. They have been working with children and families for 35 years and joined other colleagues to found a non-profit psychoanalytic school, Allen Creek Preschool, in Ann Arbor. Both Jack and Kerry Novick have written extensively. Their first book, Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism, appeared in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 076570112X
• ISBN 13: 9780765701121
• Binding: Paperback