Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

<p>At a time when there is increasing concern about the escalation of child and adolescent mental health problems <i>Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p><i>Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents</i> 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.</p>