Reflective interpersonal therapy for children and parents : mind that child! : a new way of helping parents and children with extreme conduct disorder / Hermione Roff
Published
Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2008]
RICAP: a description of the intervention -- RICAP and aggression: sometimes it helps to be bad -- RICAP and reflection: are these children mindless? -- RICAP and attachment: fighting to feel safe -- RICAP and avoidance: a useful defence or a habitual ploy? -- RICAP and emotions: why does everything have to be reduced to anger? -- RICAP and memory: what I remember tells me who I am -- RICAP and problem-solving: do solutions matter? -- RICAP and metaphor: the use and usefulness of metaphor -- Marc: a case study
Summary
Disruptive and aggressive behaviour in children causes significant distress to everyone involved. Tradition interventions tend to focus on changing the disruptive behaviour itself, but research shows that it is important to also focus on the underlying anxiety, anger and vulnerability that may have contributed to the child's conduct. In this innovativebook, Hermione Roff introduces Reflective Interpersonal Therapy for Children and Parents (RICAP), a new intervention that looks at the processes underpinning disruptive and aggressive behaviour problems. RICAP was developed specifically to meet
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index