Jason Aronson, Inc.
Pages: 356
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7657-0468-9 • Hardback • August 2006 • $136.00 • (£105.00)
978-1-4616-2993-1 • eBook • August 2006 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.
Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.
Part 1 Parent-focused Treatment
Chapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on Chapters
Chapter 3 Managing Childhood Behavior
Chapter 4 Parental Level of Awareness
Part 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath
Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
Chapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11
Part 8 Common Treatment Situations
Chapter 9 The Initial Meetings
Chapter 10 The Vulnerable Child
Chapter 11 The Vulnerable Parent
Chapter 12 Working with Easting Disorders
Chapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition Model
Chapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing Parents
Part 15 Developing Refelctive Functions
Chapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting Factor
Chapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect Regulation
Chapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills
The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children—an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As a whole, the book will provide the advanced reader with insight and guidance on working with parents and their children in the clinical setting.
— Clinical Social Work Journal, July 26, 2009