Therapeutic Approaches with Babies and Young Children in Care

Observation and Attention
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-25136-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Tavistock Clinic Series

Therapeutic Approaches for Babies and Young Children in Care: Observation and Attention is about the value of observation and close attention for babies and young children who may be vulnerable to psychological and attachment difficulties. Case studies explore the potential for observation-based therapeutic approaches to support caregivers, social workers, and professional networks. A third theme in the book is the roots of observation-based approaches in psychoanalytic infant observation and the contribution of these ways of working to professional training and continuing development.

Using case examples, Jenifer Wakelyn illustrates observational ways of working that can be practised by professionals and family members to help children express themselves and feel understood. The interventions focus on the early stages of life in care and on the "golden thread" of relationships with caregivers. The book explores contemporary neuroscience and child development research alongside psychoanalytic theory to explore the role of attention in helping children to develop the internal continuity that sustains the personality and protects against the fragmenting impact of trauma.

Therapeutic Approaches for Babies and Young Children in Care is written for social workers, teachers, medical staff, and other professionals whose work brings them in contact with the youngest children in care; it will also be relevant for commissioners, managers, and trainers as well as mental health clinicians who are starting to work with children in care. It will provide a valuable insight into the lives of infants and young children in the care system and the applications of psychoanalytic infant observation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wakelyn, Jenifer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Dilys Daws

Introduction

Chapter 1: Being seen

Chapter 2: Therapeutic observation

Chapter 3: Clinical research: therapeutic observation with an infant in foster care

Chapter 4: Learning from the research

Chapter 5: Therapeutic observation in clinical practice

Chapter 6: Briefer interventions: Watch Me Play!

Chapter 7: Practice considerations for the Watch Me Play! approach

Afterword

Glossary

Further reading and resources

Über Autor(innen)

Jenifer Wakelyn is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She teaches and supervises in the clinical training in child psychotherapy at the Tavistock Centre and has given presentations across the UK and in France, Italy, Norway, and the Ukraine about her research on therapeutic interventions with babies and young children at risk.