Parent-focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification and Reflective Function - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765704684 ISBN 13: 9780765704689

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK), 2006

Synopsis

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading psychotherapists with specialties in family therapy. Carrol Wachs and Linda Jacobs tap into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in therapy situations. The collected essays in this book, from renowned psychotherapists, focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity, and reflection in dealing with children in therapy. Parent-Focused Child Therapy is especially attractive given its currency, integrating relational theory, attachment theory and infant research.

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About the Author

Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.

Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. (UK)
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765704684
• ISBN 13: 9780765704689
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Wachs Carol, Jacobs Linda