Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adapting Psychodynamic Treatment to Contemporary Practice, 2nd Edition

What’s New to the Second Edition ix

Preface to the First Edition xiii

Acknowledgments xv

To the Reader xvii

Part I The Essentials

1 Easy Does It: Beginning Therapy 3

2 Can I Help You? Evaluating the Child and Offering Treatment 15

3 The Not-So-Magic of Therapy: How Therapy Works 29

4 Do Fence Me In: The Bounds and Limits 47

5 Tell Me Where It Hurts: On Talking and Querying 63

Part II Techniques and Tools

6 The Lowdown on High Drama: Playing with Puppets and Action Figures 77

7 Shoot, Topple, and Roll: Using Games, Building Toys, and Guns 89

8 Drawing Out the Child: Artwork in Therapy 105

9 All Together Now: Balancing Play and Talk 125

10 Pushing the Envelope: On Giving, Telling, and Other Exceptions 141

Part III The Rest

11 Handle with Care: Working with Parents 161

12 Handle with Care, Part II: More Work with Parents 177

13 On Brotherly Love and Musical Chairs: Family Work 187

14 Talking Heads: Working with Schools and Other Agencies 199

15 Hard Times: Unwilling Patients and Therapeutic Crises 209

16 Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Me: aRace, Religion, and Culture 227

17 When Therapy Is Not Enough: Medication 239

18 I Can Name That Tune in Six Sessions: Managed Care and Evidence-Based Treatment 249

19 All’s Well That Ends Well: Closing Therapy 261

References 277

Index 283

About the Author 293