1st Edition
The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents Collaborative Therapeutic Care
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is a distinct lack of research, evidence and treatment facilities, and yet in order to produce mentally healthy, undamaged adults of the future, this must surely be one area to concentrate resources on. The Cassel... Read more
Introduction: public and private dimensions of therapeutic work with children and adolescents -- The inpatient psychotherapy of a mother and child at the Cassel Hospital: a case of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy -- Poison glue: the child's experience of Munchhausen syndrome by proxy -- Psychoanalytic aspects of inpatient treatment of abused children -- School children in the Cassel community: discovering a place in which to live and learn -- Adolescence: a transitory world -- The darkling plain: the inpatient treatment of a severely disturbed borderline adolescent -- The containment of borderline adolescents
Biography
Lesley Day, BA, MSc (Econ), MSc (Psychotherapy), Dip Integ Psychotherapy, Dip Psy Couns, was head of the Training and Consultancy Department at the Cassel Hospital and an Adult Psychotherapist in the Outpatient Service and in private practice. Prior to joining Cassel, she was the Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Brunel University. She has published in the fields of policy, social work and psychotherapy, and is co-editor of 'Women, Oppression and Social Work: Issues in Anti-Discriminatory Practice'.
