
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Making the Conscious Unconscious
Peter Blake(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 25. March 2021
Book
Hardback
334 pages
978-0-367-74133-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual and the practical, this book clarifies complex theory while giving practical advice for clinicians through a nuts and bolts description of how to interview parents, emotionally assess a child and adolescent, set up a consulting room and conduct a therapy session. The addition of chapter summaries, questions and suggested further readings provides a valuable structure to those in child and adolescent training programmes.
The author's experience, gained from public and private work, is vividly described with the use of clinical examples to illustrate his thinking and way of working. This third edition highlights his evolution from a more traditional epistemological (knowing) approach, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight, to a more ontological (being) framework. He explores a more intuitive and unconscious way of working and argues this is more developmentally appropriate to children and adolescents. His accessible writing style transports the reader into his clinical world: a world full of fascinating stories of children talking through their play; of adolescents exploring who they are through their discussions about music, films, sport and computer games; of helping parents to understand and thoughtfully manage their child's emotional struggles.
This new edition, an amalgam of theoretical orientations (Kleinian, Bionian, Winnicottian, relational, non-linear and neurological), draws from recent developments, both in theory and technique. It will be of immense value to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and all those involved in the treatment of children's mental health.
The author's experience, gained from public and private work, is vividly described with the use of clinical examples to illustrate his thinking and way of working. This third edition highlights his evolution from a more traditional epistemological (knowing) approach, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight, to a more ontological (being) framework. He explores a more intuitive and unconscious way of working and argues this is more developmentally appropriate to children and adolescents. His accessible writing style transports the reader into his clinical world: a world full of fascinating stories of children talking through their play; of adolescents exploring who they are through their discussions about music, films, sport and computer games; of helping parents to understand and thoughtfully manage their child's emotional struggles.
This new edition, an amalgam of theoretical orientations (Kleinian, Bionian, Winnicottian, relational, non-linear and neurological), draws from recent developments, both in theory and technique. It will be of immense value to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and all those involved in the treatment of children's mental health.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
6 s/w Zeichnungen
6 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-74133-4 (9780367741334)
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Peter Blake
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Book
07/2019
2nd Edition
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€148.80
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Person
Peter Blake is a clinical psychologist and Tavistock-trained child psychotherapist. He has 45 years of experience in working in the area of child and family mental health, in England and Australia. Peter is currently Director of the Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Sydney), a professional body that offers online training in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Peter also works in private practice in Sydney.
Content
Introduction 01. The analytic legacy 02. Conceptual framework 03. Psychoanalytic observation 04. Referral and initial interview 05. Individual assessment 06. Developmental considerations 07. Assessment for therapy 08. Working with parents 09. The setting, physical and mental, and limits 10. Interpretation: A Case for the Abolition of Interpretation to Children 11. The role of play 12. The challenges of play 13. Playing with Transference and Countertransference 14. Playing with Transference and Countertransference 15. Adolescents 16. Endings Conclusion Bibliography