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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 studied medicine at the universities of Cambridge, Leeds, and Oxford, and went on to work in medicine and psychiatry in Oxford and New Zealand. He now works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the National Health Service.
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.
