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Author Hunter, Margaret, 1949-

Title Psychotherapy with young people in care : lost and found / Margaret Hunter
Published Hove [U.K.] : Brunner-Routledge ; Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Peter Wilson -- Beginnings -- First impressions -- What gets communicated -- The psychotherapeutic task -- Debates about interpretation and the ego -- The use of psychotherapy as an assessment -- The importance of preventive work -- A view from the bridge -- Children in transition -- External and internal worlds -- The value of professional alliance -- Deficiencies in practice -- Networking -- Treatment length -- Multiple points of view -- When therapy is not necessary -- Confidentiality -- The work of liaison -- Internal and external links -- The need for seclusion -- Aggression and its containment -- Therapy and the Children Act -- Suicidal ideation -- Sexual, emotional and physical abuse -- Child protection and when therapists have to 'tell' -- Joseph -- a therapy in pictures -- The effects of neglect and abuse -- Confidentiality and duty of care -- Defences of denial and omnipotence -- Resilience -- Siblings in therapy -- Interpreting children's pictures -- Super-heroes -- Transference -- Projection of unwanted feelings -- Denial and mistrust -- Progress in therapy -- Partnership -- Therapeutic gains -- Charlotte -- Early deprivation and abuse -- Aggression and fear of retaliation -- Dody and ego boundaries -- Use of the manic defence -- Child's view of sexuality -- The Oedipus complex -- Interpretation and containment -- Rivalry and perversity -- Diagnostic difficulties -- Child sexual abuse -- Defence mechanisms -- Placation and denial -- A legacy of lies -- The role of power and control
Summary Psychotherapy with Young People in Care is a practical guide to working with this group from a psychoanalytic therapeutic perspective, tackling those issues most relevant to practitioners: ethical considerations (confidentiality, sexual abuse) particular problems faced by young people (ADHD, Trauma, PTSD). Drawing on the author's years of experience, and illustrated with a wealth of clinical examples and comprehensive glossary, the book is an essential teaching text for all those who work with young people in care
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment.
Child psychotherapy.
Children.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Psychotherapy -- methods
Adolescent
Child
Child, Institutionalized -- psychology
Foster Home Care
Mental Disorders -- therapy
Residential Treatment -- methods
children (people by age group)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Child & Adolescent.
Mental illness -- Treatment
Children
Child psychotherapy
Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment
Form Electronic book
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