Integrating systemic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives, this acclaimed book presents an innovative framework for therapeutic work. Ellen Wachtel shows how parents and children all too often get entangled in patterns that cause grief to both generations, and demonstrates how to help bring about change with a combination of family-focused and child-focused interventions. Vivid case examples illustrate creative ways to engage young children in family sessions and conduct complementary sessions with children and parents alone, using a variety of strengths-based, developmentally informed strategies. The paperback edition features a new preface in which the author reflects on the continuing evolution of her approach.
Integrating systemic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives, this acclaimed book presents an innovative framework for therapeutic work. Ellen Wachtel shows how parents and children all too often get entangled in patterns that cause grief to both generations, and demonstrates how to help bring about change with a combination of family-focused and child-focused interventions. Vivid case examples illustrate creative ways to engage young children in family sessions and conduct complementary sessions with children and parents alone, using a variety of strengths-based, developmentally informed strategies. The paperback edition features a new preface in which the author reflects on the continuing evolution of her approach.
1. The Child as an Individual: An Introduction to
Child-in-Family Therapy
2. Meeting with Parents Alone: Understanding Their Concerns
3. Getting the Most Out of Family Meetings
4. Knowing the Child in Depth: A Clinical Guide to Effective
Individual Sessions
5. Anxiety, Adaptational Styles, and Defense Mechanims
6. Essential Psychodynamic Concepts
7. Interventions Based on Psychodynamic Formulations
8. Interventions Based on Behavioral Formulations
9. Pulling It All Together: Five Illustrative Case Studies
Ellen F. Wachtel, JD, PhD, has taught and supervised individual and family therapy in the doctoral programs at New York University and the City University of New York, as well as at Roosevelt Hospital and the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She maintains a private practice in New York City.
Treating Troubled Children and Their Families is a staple text for
the child therapy and family therapy courses I teach in our
clinical psychology PhD program. I believe it is far and away the
most valuable reading that students do in these courses. Students
regularly comment on how 'right' it feels to view their clinical
work through Dr. Wachtel's integrative lens. They also appreciate
the easy balance between theoretical perspectives and very detailed
descriptions of what to do in a session. Students have even
remarked that they save Dr. Wachtel's chapters for last, as a
reward for finishing all of their other reading for the week! Among
the most essential qualities of Dr. Wachtel’s work are her respect
and appreciation for the strengths of each parent and child, which
truly make this book a gift for each new generation of clinicians
working with families across all sociocultural contexts.--Karla
Klein Murdock, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of
Massachusetts-Boston
Treating Troubled Children and Their Families is required reading
for my master's-level students. Wachtel articulates psychodynamic
developmental principles in a way that is invaluable to burgeoning
clinicians who are striving to be relationship specialists.
Students appreciate how the text helps them understand children's
developmental needs and how to relate to them in a family context,
and the creative ideas it provides for intervening in family
therapy.--Linda Stone Fish, PhD, Department of Marriage and Family
Therapy, Syracuse University
A ground-breaking work! Wachtel describes an integrated model of
therapy which combines elements of systemic, psychodynamic, play,
and cognitive behavioral approaches. The author's child in family
therapy combines both individual and interpersonal perspectives.
Both beginning and experienced family therapists will find many
practical suggestions for engaging young children in the
therapeutic process. Highly recommended. --Charles E. Schaefer,
Ph.D., Founder of the Play Therapy Training Institute, New Jersey,
author of The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Undaunted by the challenge of integrating four different
traditions--cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, and systems
therapies--Ellen Wachtel uses her impressive intellect and
inexhaustible imagination to bring the reader the best of theory
and practice on behalf of troubled children and their families. A
`must' for all therapists working with children. --Marcia
Sheinberg, M.S.W., Director of Training, Ackerman Institute for
Family Therapy
This is a big book in every sense of the word. To call it an
integrative model is to minimize its impact. Therapists who define
themselves as systems or family therapists, as well as those who
practice a psychodynamic model of child therapy, will find it
equally important. Dr. Wachtel tells us that the 'relative balance
of systemic psychodynamic behavioral and cognitive interventions
varies greatly from case to case. Therapists need to pick and
choose, borrow and reshape from all those who have something to
offer distressed and troubled children.' I say amen to that. Dr.
Wachtel has an encyclopedic knowledge of her field. She teaches
while she informs. Best of all she holds your interest every page
of the process. This may be the one book you will refer to over and
over again. To quote Ms. Wachtel again, 'Most important of all is
that therapists learn to think about children's difficulties from a
wide variety of perspectives and that they have in their repertoire
a wide range of interventions.' This book will help us all in that
direction. --Olga Silverstein, M.S.W., and author of The Courage to
Raise Good Men
....Extremely well-written....A must for professionals at all
levels of clinical experience who work with children and their
families. --Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ohio State University in Journal of
Family Psychotherapy
- Extremely well-written....A must for professionals at all levels
of clinical experience who work with children and their families.
--Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 6/4/2004ƒƒ [A] masterly
contribution in integration, with provocative and groundbreaking
implications for contemporary family therapy. --AFTA Newsletter,
6/4/2004
Treating Troubled Children and Their Families is a staple text for
the child therapy and family therapy courses I teach in our
clinical psychology PhD program. I believe it is far and away the
most valuable reading that students do in these courses. Students
regularly comment on how 'right' it feels to view their clinical
work through Dr. Wachtel's integrative lens. They also appreciate
the easy balance between theoretical perspectives and very detailed
descriptions of what to do in a session. Students have even
remarked that they save Dr. Wachtel's chapters for last, as a
reward for finishing all of their other reading for the week! Among
the most essential qualities of Dr. Wachtel’s work are her respect
and appreciation for the strengths of each parent and child, which
truly make this book a gift for each new generation of clinicians
working with families across all sociocultural contexts.--Karla
Klein Murdock, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of
Massachusetts-Boston
Treating Troubled Children and Their Families is required reading
for my master's-level students. Wachtel articulates psychodynamic
developmental principles in a way that is invaluable to burgeoning
clinicians who are striving to be relationship specialists.
Students appreciate how the text helps them understand children's
developmental needs and how to relate to them in a family context,
and the creative ideas it provides for intervening in family
therapy.--Linda Stone Fish, PhD, Department of Marriage and Family
Therapy, Syracuse University
A ground-breaking work! Wachtel describes an integrated model of
therapy which combines elements of systemic, psychodynamic, play,
and cognitive behavioral approaches. The author's child in family
therapy combines both individual and interpersonal perspectives.
Both beginning and experienced family therapists will find many
practical suggestions for engaging young children in the
therapeutic process. Highly recommended. --Charles E. Schaefer,
Ph.D., Founder of the Play Therapy Training Institute, New Jersey,
author of The Therapeutic Powers of Play
Undaunted by the challenge of integrating four different
traditions--cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, and systems
therapies--Ellen Wachtel uses her impressive intellect and
inexhaustible imagination to bring the reader the best of theory
and practice on behalf of troubled children and their families. A
`must' for all therapists working with children. --Marcia
Sheinberg, M.S.W., Director of Training, Ackerman Institute for
Family Therapy
This is a big book in every sense of the word. To call it an
integrative model is to minimize its impact. Therapists who define
themselves as systems or family therapists, as well as those who
practice a psychodynamic model of child therapy, will find it
equally important. Dr. Wachtel tells us that the 'relative balance
of systemic psychodynamic behavioral and cognitive interventions
varies greatly from case to case. Therapists need to pick and
choose, borrow and reshape from all those who have something to
offer distressed and troubled children.' I say amen to that. Dr.
Wachtel has an encyclopedic knowledge of her field. She teaches
while she informs. Best of all she holds your interest every page
of the process. This may be the one book you will refer to over and
over again. To quote Ms. Wachtel again, 'Most important of all is
that therapists learn to think about children's difficulties from a
wide variety of perspectives and that they have in their repertoire
a wide range of interventions.' This book will help us all in that
direction. --Olga Silverstein, M.S.W., and author of The Courage to
Raise Good Men
....Extremely well-written....A must for professionals at all
levels of clinical experience who work with children and their
families. --Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ohio State University in Journal of
Family Psychotherapy
- Extremely well-written....A must for professionals at all levels
of clinical experience who work with children and their families.
--Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 6/4/2004Æ’Æ’ [A] masterly
contribution in integration, with provocative and groundbreaking
implications for contemporary family therapy. --AFTA Newsletter,
6/4/2004
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