Cultivating Compassion - A Psychodynamic Understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity

Cultivating Compassion offers an effective and highly sensitive psychodynamic approach for working with ADHD children and their parents. Conway seamlessly interweaves theory and practice to present a step-by-step guide to psychodynamic treatment that focuses on facilitating compassionate relationships with ADHD children.

About the author

Francine Conway, PhD, is Dean and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. She has been treating children diagnosed with ADHD for over fifteen years and has published numerous articles and book chapters on the emotional lives of children. She also serves as the research editor of the Journal of Infant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and is a consulting editor for Psychotherapy.

Summary

Cultivating Compassion offers an effective and highly sensitive psychodynamic approach for working with ADHD children and their parents. Conway seamlessly interweaves theory and practice to present a step-by-step guide to psychodynamic treatment that focuses on facilitating compassionate relationships with ADHD children.

Product details

• Authors: Conway, Francine Conway, Conway Francine
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2017
• EAN: 9781442273009
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7300-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Abnormal psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis