Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

This readable guide for therapists and therapists-in-training lays out the theoretical essence and practical essentials of doing child and adolescent psychotherapy from the referral call to the last goodbye.

What’s New to the Second Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xiii Acknowledgments xv To the Reader xvii Part I The Essentials 1 Easy Does It: Beginning Therapy 3 2 Can I Help You? Evaluating the Child and Offering Treatment 15 3 The Not-So-Magic of Therapy: How Therapy Works 29 4 Do Fence Me In: The Bounds and Limits 47 5 Tell Me Where It Hurts: On Talking and Querying 63 Part II Techniques and Tools 6 The Lowdown on High Drama: Playing with Puppets and Action Figures 77 7 Shoot, Topple, and Roll: Using Games, Building Toys, and Guns 89 8 Drawing Out the Child: Artwork in Therapy 105 9 All Together Now: Balancing Play and Talk 125 10 Pushing the Envelope: On Giving, Telling, and Other Exceptions 141 Part III The Rest 11 Handle with Care: Working with Parents 161 12 Handle with Care, Part II: More Work with Parents 177 13 On Brotherly Love and Musical Chairs: Family Work 187 14 Talking Heads: Working with Schools and Other Agencies 199 15 Hard Times: Unwilling Patients and Therapeutic Crises 209 16 Getting to Know You, Getting to Know Me: aRace, Religion, and Culture 227 17 When Therapy Is Not Enough: Medication 239 18 I Can Name That Tune in Six Sessions: Managed Care and Evidence-Based Treatment 249 19 All’s Well That Ends Well: Closing Therapy 261 References 277 Index 283 About the Author 293