Psychotherapy in Group Care
Subtitle: Making Life Good Enough
Contributors: D. Patrick Zimmerman (Editor); Richard A. Epstein (Editor); Martin, Ph.D. Leichtman (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780789022233
Subjects: Psychology; Psychotherapy - General; Residential treatment; Adolescent psychotherapy; Child psychotherapy
First sentence: SUMMARY: This paper presents certain aspects of the analytic process that emerged in work with an adolescent boy who, for lack of better diagnostic specificity, had come to feel as though he was a psychological orphan.
Description: "This book addresses the complex issues that arise in the effort to provide individual therapy in group care settings. It reviews classical case material, presents contemporary case studies, and examines practical and theoretical issues important to the effective delivery of treatment to individuals living in residential care. Noted experts who have been associated with The Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, share knowledge garnered from years of real-world experience to help you stay at the leading edge of the field and provide effective individual treatment to your clients in long- and short-term residential care."--BOOK JACKET.