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Title "What can the matter be?" : therapeutic interventions with parents, infants, and young children : the work of the Tavistock Clinic under fives service / edited by Louise Emanuel & Elizabeth Bradley ; foreword by Margaret Rustin
Published London : Karnac, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 294 pages)
Series Tavistock Clinic series
Tavistock Clinic series.
Contents Brief work with parents of infants / Isca Wittenberg -- The relation of infant observation to clinical practice in an under-fives counselling service / Lisa Miller -- Infant-parent psychotherapy: Selam Fraiberg's contribution to undersgtanding the past in the present / Juliet Hopkins -- The process of change in under-fives work / Paul Barrows -- A slow unfolding--at double speed: therapeutic interventions with parents and their young children / Louise Emanuel -- A sinking heart: whose problem is it? Under-fives work in the surgery of a general practitioner / Beverley Tydeman & Janine Sternberg -- Anger between children and parents: how can we help? / Lisa Miller -- Disruptive and distressed toddlers: the impact of undetected maternal depression on infants and young children / Louise Emanuel -- Where the wild things are: tantrums and behaviour problems in two under-fives boys / Cathy Urwin -- Locating the ghost in the nursery: the importance of the parental couple / Paul Barrows -- Father "there and not there": the concept of a "united couple" in families with unstable partnerships / Louise Emanuel -- Oedipal issues in under-fives families: creating a space for thinking / Michi Gurion -- Spanning presence and absence: separation anxiety in the early years / Meira Likierman -- Sleeping and feeding problems: attunement and daring to be different / Dilys Daws -- Holding the balance: life and death in the early years / Elizabeth Bradley
Summary This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young children's communications and behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships within the consulting room in a lively, accessible style. It covers common themes in work with young children such as disruptive, angry behaviour, separation and sleep difficulties, and problems in the parent/couple relationship. This book is essential reading for all early years professionals hoping to gain a greater understanding of the technique, observational skills and theory which underlie a psychodynamic approach to work with the under fives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Tavistock Clinic.
SUBJECT Tavistock Clinic fast
London -- Tavistock Clinic. swd
Subject Preschool children -- Mental health
Child rearing.
Child development.
Preschool children.
Psychoanalysis.
Child Behavior Disorders -- therapy
Child, Preschool
Child Development
Family Therapy
Parents -- psychology
Child Rearing
psychoanalysis.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Infants & Toddlers.
Preschool children
Child development
Child rearing
Preschool children -- Mental health
Kinderpsychotherapie
Form Electronic book
Author Emanuel, Louise, 1953-
Bradley, Elizabeth, FRCPsych.
Tavistock Clinic.
ISBN 9781849406239
1849406235
0429484798
9780429484797
1283070456
9781283070454
9786613070456
6613070459
042990956X
9780429909566