Being With and Saying Goodbye - Cultivating Therapeutic Attitude in Professional Practice

Drawing on attachment and psychodynamic approaches, as well as systemic, values-based and mindful practice, Being With and Saying Goodbye describes an attitude that should be the prerequisite and medium of all child and adolescent work that has therapeutic intention. Unacknowledged, even reviled, this ghost in the machine is threatened with extinction.

List of contents

Introduction , Being and being with , The intrusion of reality , The nature of evidence , Uncertainty, the mother (or father) of hope , Thinking , Greeting and engagement , Assessment and diagnosis , Treatment , Saying goodbye , Epilogue , A Two-page Prescription for Being with and Saying Goodbye in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

About the author

Andrew West

Summary

Drawing on attachment and psychodynamic approaches, as well as systemic, values-based and mindful practice, Being With and Saying Goodbye describes an attitude that should be the prerequisite and medium of all child and adolescent work that has therapeutic intention. Unacknowledged, even reviled, this ghost in the machine is threatened with extinction.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew West, Andrew Fleming West
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781782203360
• ISBN: 978-1-78220-336-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine