Assessing change in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of children and adolescents today's challenge (Karnac Books, 2010)
"Published by Karnac for the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief, non-intensive ways of working so are applicable in many settings and can therefore be generalised to other clinical teams. The populations worked with are diverse and often present mainstream services with refractory clinical problems, so an applied psychoanalytic approach is well worth trying given the evidence presented in this volume. There is in addition an excellent theoretical chapter on the issu
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Child and adolescent psychotherapy research: Clinical applications; CHAPTER TWO Integrating research in a clinical setting for child psychotherapy: A case study about facilitating and hindering factors in psychoanalytic psychotherapy; CHAPTER THREE What does a manual contribute?; CHAPTER FOUR Focused systematic case studies: An approach linking clinical work and research; CHAPTER FIVE The Heidelberg study of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents