University Press of America
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978-0-7618-5470-8 • Paperback • November 2011 • $64.99 • (£50.00)
978-0-7618-5469-2 • eBook • September 2011 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
Gilbert Kliman, M.D. is a Harvard Medical School graduate, a National Institute of Mental Health principal investigator, co-recipient of an International Prize for "World's best book concerning the well-being and nurture of children," and recipient of Dean Brockman Award for Lifetime Achievement. Kliman has worked intensively with preschool children for over forty-five years.
Introduction by Alexandra Harrison, M.D.
Contributions to the text by Thomas Lopez and Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci.
Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
PART 1 Reflective Network Therapy: The Children It Helps And How It Helps Them
Chapter 1 New Hope for Children with Psychiatric and Developmental Disorders
Chapter 2 Welcome to a Reflective Network Therapy Classroom
Chapter 3 Reflective Network Therapy: How-To-Do-It Manual for Therapists, Teachers and Parents
Chapter 4 How I Recovered from Autism
Chapter 5 An Aggressive, Cruel Boy Becomes an Empathic, Socialized Learner
Chapter 6 A Traumatized Child Emerges From Chaos
Chapter 7 Helping a Child with a Serious Emotional Disorder (SED) and a Serious Physical Disorder
Chapter 8 Bereaved Preschoolers with Serious Emotional Disorders (SED)
PART 2 Benefits and Cost-Benefit Comparisons to other Methods: Theory of what Happens in Reflective Network Therapy
Chapter 9 Benefits and Cost Benefit Comparisons to other Methods: The RNT Advantage for Special Needs Preschoolers and the People Who Care About Them
Chapter 10 Theory of What Happens in Reflective Network Therapy
References and Suggested Readings
Appendix A Resources for Therapists, Teachers, Researchers, Parents, Schools and Mental Health Agencies
Appendix B Reflective Network Therapy Training and Certification
Appendix C Professional Participants
Appendix D The Children's Psychological Health Center
Index
About the Author
The techniques are far more economical to use than we have found with the Lovaas method (ABA). We have seen the techniques transmitted to special education teachers as well as inexperienced therapists.
— Jay S. Parnes, Ed.D., senior administrator, special education
...Kliman has creatively taken the application of classical child analysis a giant leap forward.
— David Dean Brockman, M.D., editor, The American College of Psychoanalysts Newsletter
It is very helpful that you have very nice follow-up on some of the now-adults who were preschoolers at the time that you intervened in their lives. The IQ rise that follows upon good treatment of these children by your method is very convincing….It is heartening to see the thoughtful and insightful states of mind developing in children as they feel the impact of the interpretations.
— Harry Z. Coren, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist
Once I tell [people] how Reflective Network Therapy helped me recover and become a happy, thriving child and adult, they are moved beyond belief….RNT may be a powerful means of rehabilitating children with autism spectrum disorders since their difficulties result from their brains responding to interpersonal stimuli by avoiding emotions rather than feeling and processing them.
— Dorian Tenore-Bartilucci, formerly autistic preschooler treated by RNT