I.Introduction to Child Therapy
1.General Characteristics of the Child Patient
2.The Process of Assessment and Its Role in the Treatment
Process
3.The Central Role of Play
II.Work with Parents
4.Parent Guidance and Transference Parenting
5.Treatment of the Parent¿Child Relationship
III.The Process of Treatment: The Fundamentals
6.Treatment of the Neurotic Child
7.Treatment of Character Pathology
8.Treatment of the Borderline Child
9.Treatment of the Narcissistically Disturbed Child
10.Focal Psychotherapy
IV.The Process of Treatment: An Elaboration
11.The Case of Andy
12.The Case of Margaret
Morton Chethik, MSW, is an emeritus professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He is Director of the Child Psychotherapy Program at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and continues his private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A current area of his writing focuses on the special perspective that child therapy provides for understanding work with adult patients.
Chethik has done it again! His new second edition is a fitting
extension of the first. This gifted child therapist presents the
basic concepts of child therapy and elaborates a detailed account
of the clinical process with children and parents. Lengthy and rich
case presentations include the therapist's reflections, informing
the reader about the clinician's feelings, hunches, and
countertransference responses. This rare account of the essence of
therapy makes this text a 'must' for all practitioners dealing with
children, be they student social workers, child fellows, psychology
interns, or more advanced practitioners. --Judith Mishne, DSW,
Ehrenkranz School of Social Work, New York University
This book will be welcomed by teachers and students of child
psychotherapy, both in graduate training programs and in the
extension courses offered by many institutes. Chethik describes
what goes into careful biopsychosocial assessment of presenting
problems, and clarifies the ways in which treatment subsequently
draws on that diagnostic frame. Not only does this author offer
unusually rich details about beginnings, middles, and endings in
play therapy with children, but he also includes the collateral and
often less emphasized work with their parents at these different
stages. --Jean Sanville, PhD, Los Angeles Institute and Society for
Psychoanalytic Studies; author of The Playground of Psychoanalytic
Therapy
In an age when child treatment often consists of an expedient
pharmacological 'cure,' Morton Chethik's newly revised Techniques
of Child Therapy is a breath of fresh air. The merits of Chethik's
dynamic approach are many, including the significance he imputes to
thorough diagnostic evaluation and his emphasis on the importance
of the parental alliance. Also noteworthy are the book's detailed
presentations of treatment process and its discussion of more
challenging cases involving severe character pathology. Wise and
compassionate, this book serves as a model for the practice of
dynamic child psychotherapy. It can be recommended unreservedly to
novice and more experienced clinicians alike, be they social
workers, clinical psychologists, or child psychiatrists. --Jerrold
R. Brandell, PhD, BCD, author of Of Mice and Metaphors; Founding
Editor, Psychoanalytic Social Work
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