Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Process and Integration

This comprehensive reference provides a basic understanding of psychotherapeutic treatment that allows the integration of therapies and an individualistic approach to children. Its focus is on the use of the heuristic approach to treatment as a way of understanding the therapeutic process with children. It emphasizes the basic processes of change, relates diagnosis to treatment choice, shows clearly how the therapist goes about integrating treatments for children, and details how the therapist can use a different type of diagnosis Ñ dispositional diagnosis Ñ to select an appropriate form of treatment. The pragmatic orientation of the book provides the information needed to engage a child in treatment and includes actual interaction techniques between child and therapist. Clinical Psychologists. A Longwood Professional Book