Working with Parents
Establishing the Essential Alliance in Child Psychotherapy and Consultation
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 1997
272 pages
978-1-4616-3265-8 (ISBN)
Description
The author encourages therapists to approach parents as individuals (not just as parents), and to maintain the same professional perspective in dealing with them that informs the rest of their work. Illustrative case material draws on a considerable range of presenting pictures, from parents who are themselves therapists to those who have no frame of reference for treatment, from parents who seek help when a healthy youngster hits a developmental impasse to those whose lives are shattered by severe pathology and psychic isolation in their children. Integrating theory and technique to provide the practitioner with the tools to elicit collaboration from parents instead of obstruction, Siskind makes it possible for child therapists to sustain the interest, curiosity, neutrality, and empathy that are preconditions to effective treatment.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3265-8 (9781461632658)
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Diana Siskind
Working with Parents
Establishing the Essential Alliance in Child Psychotherapy and Consultation
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06/1997
Jason Aronson Publishers
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Person
Diana Siskind is on the faculty of the New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and maintains a private practice that encompasses consultation with parents and supervision in addition to the treatment of adults and children.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Part I: The Working Alliance: Obstacles and Objectives
- 1. Questions and Dilemmas in Work with Parents
- 2. Is this Parent a Patient? Working with Mrs. Adams
- 3. Is this Patient a Parent? Working with Mrs. Kay
- 4. The Professional Attitude
- 5. The Dynamics of Referrals
- Part II: The Child Therapist as Consultant on Transient Childhood Problems
- 6. Consultations with Parents who Need Help in Dealing with Commonplace Childhood Problems
- 7. Consultation about a Sleep Problem
- 8. The Consultant as Auxiliary Ego
- 9. Brief Treatment of a Bowel Retention Problem
- 10. A Tripartite Treatment Approach
- 11. Examples of Brief Interventions with Mixed Outcomes
- Part III: Ongoing Work with the Parents of Children in Treatment
- 12. Guidelines for Establishing Patterns of Contact with Parents
- 13. An Ideal Outcome
- References
- Index
- About the Author
