Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy

Revitalizing Treatment and Research
1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-57230-095-8
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 395 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

This groundbreaking work advances a developmental perspective on both the basic processes of therapeutic change and the classification of childhood problems, offering a novel approach to the search for effective treatments for children. Generating a new flow of ideas between clinical practice and empirical research, the volume revitalizes basic modalities such as psychodynamic, play, and cognitive therapies by identifying the core ingredients that enhance and retard the processes of change. The authors also demonstrate the limitations of utilizing diagnostic labels as the basis for assessing treatment efficacy, arguing instead for an integrative approach that links methods of intervention with a case-relevant analysis of the child's emotional, interpersonal, and cognitive development.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shirk, Stephen R.

Russell, Robert L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pädiatrie, Neonatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Child Psychotherapy
1. The Domain of Child Psychotherapy.
2. The Effects of Child Psychotherapy: Outcome Research.
3. The Process of Child Psychotherapy: Process Research.
4. Conceptual Interlude: Essential Ingredients for Revitalizing Child Psychotherapy.

II. Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy
5. Interpersonal Change Processes
6. Emotional Change Processes.
7. Cognitive Change Processes.

III. Case Formulations in Child Psychotherapy.
8. Treatment Selection: Formulations of Pathogenic Processes.
9. Formulation-Guided Child Psychotherapy: Case Studies.
10. Change Processes and Case Formulations: Conclusions:

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen R. Shirk, Ph.D., is Director of the Child Study Center and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver. He has authored a variety of papers on the role of developmental processes in child treatment, and has edited a volume on child therapy and development entitled Cognitive Development and Child Psychotherapy. The focus of his current research is on interpersonal processes in child psychotherapy and child psychopathology.

Robert L. Russell, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. He has authored numerous journal articles on psychotherapy process and outcome, and has edited special sections on psychotherapy research in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Clinical Psychology Review. He has also edited two books, Language in Psychotherapy: Strategies of Discovery and Reassessing Psychotherapy Research. In 1989 he was awarded the Early Career Contribution Award by the Society for Psychotherapy Research. His current work focuses on discourse and narrative processes in child and adult psychotherapy and in the social adjustment of learning disabled and conduct disordered children.