Assessment in Child Psychotherapy

This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and wider school and community context.

List of contents

Preface , Introduction , Assessing Children with Communication Disorders , Borderline Children , Severe Eating Difficulties , What Follows Family Breakdown? , Assessing Sexually Abused Children , An Under Fives’ Counselling Service and its Relation to Questions of Assessment , Family Explorations , Assessing Adolescents , Assessing the Risk of Self Harm in Adolescents

About the author

Emanuela Quagliata

Summary

This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in the developmental process, and to the family and wider school and community context.

Product details

• Authors: Emanuela Quagliata, Emanuela (Italian Psychoanalytic Societ Quagliata, Emanuela Rustin Quagliata, Margaret Quagliata Rustin
• Assisted by: Emanuela Quagliata (Editor), Quagliata Emanuela (Editor), Margaret Rustin (Editor), Rustin Margaret (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367105419
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10541-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: The Tavistock Clinic Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis