Child Development in the Modern Day: Jicap vol. 2, no. 1

The fifth issue of The Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, entitled Child Development in the Modern Day, exemplifies the journal’s mission, bringing together the brilliant clinical work and cutting-edge theoretical discourses of its contributors. Child Development in the Modern Day offers reexaminations of clinical treatments, probing of nosological theory, and, as ever, a dedication to infants, children, and adolescents.

This issue contains the sequel to the Novicks’ influential article on parent work in analysis; Tubero’s sensitive and important essay on adoption, attachment, and reenactment in the therapeutic setting; Altman’s proleptic analysis of relational child psychotherapy; and Castillo’s discussion of holding and treating trauma cases in children.

Jane Fixman brings her expertise and insight in child psychotherapy to the fore in discussing problems of attachment in foster children. From a more meta-therapeutic perspective, Catherine Fincke presents her work on children’s narration of metaphor in the clinic. Robert Furman proposes a new approach to the ever-problematic treatment of ADHD, and Stephen Midgen examines depression in adolescents with learning disabilities.