At a time when there is increasing concern about the escalation of child and adolescent mental health problems, Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents provides an innovative contextual model that engages the child or young person and their parents. The core of the model is the recognition of the dynamic capacity for growth in the child and how this, in itself, creates opportunities for effective treatment over a relatively short period of time.

Based on evidence that the most enduring therapeutic outcomes involve a shift in the parents' relational understanding of themselves, as well as a change in the child, the book uses case examples to show how this model can be applied in everyday therapeutic practice.

Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents is aimed at practitioners in the field of child, adolescent, parent and family psychotherapy. It will interest psychologists, child psychotherapists, doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and mental health workers.

About the Author

Ruth Schmidt Neven, PhD is a child psychotherapist, clinical psychologist, educator and researcher. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and over four decades has brought a pioneering approach to clinical work with children and young people, emphasising the essential nature of the meaning of behaviour.

Reviews

"A pioneering approach to clinical work with children and young people, emphasising the essential nature of the meaning of behaviour. The book only has 129 pages, but is packed with good research and a clear presentation of this approach from the author... I recommend this book to our membership and I will encourage my staff and colleagues to read it." - Rachel Eastop, MBACP, BACP Children & Young People

"From the first paragraph, I was excited. By the second page, I was cheering. As I read further, no matter how my expectations soared, the author repeatedly exceeded them... I found this book a very rewarding read. Recurrent themes consistently reappeared but not in a repetitive manner, rather expanding and stretching the concepts and thu eliciting deeper meaning." - Glen Barnes, Australian Association of Family Therapy

Book Information
ISBN 9781138960947
Author Ruth Schmidt Neven
Format Paperback
Page Count 146
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 226g