Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function [Hardcover]

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems.Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functionsis an edited collection, drawing from leading psychotherapists with specialties in family therapy. Carrol Wachs and Linda Jacobs tap into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in therapy situations. The collected essays in this book, from renowned psychotherapists, focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity, and reflection in dealing with children in therapy.Parent-Focused Child Therapyis especially attractive given its currency, integrating relational theory, attachment theory and infant research.

Carol Wachs, Psy.D.co-authoredParent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Childrenwith Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.

Linda Jacobs, Ph.D.is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the bookParent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Childrenwith Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children-an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As lº