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Overview
This introduction to child psychotherapy describes carefully controlled therapeutic techniques by which children can make sense of their experiences. It explains how therapists must develop an understanding of how children think, interact, communicate and change as they grow.
How children think, communicate, interact & change/history taking & parent issues/therapeutic space/childhood losses.
Synopsis
"This is full of many wonderful vignettes, richly developed and integrated into a unified theoretical framework. . . . One of the best books in the field." —Gary Cohen, M.D.
Booknews
Donovan and McIntyre (medical director and child therapist, respectively, the Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry, St. Petersburg, Florida) develop a theory of clinical child psychotherapy explicated not only through an integration of research from cognitive studies, developmental psycholinguistics and traumatology, but also through children's own voices. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)