Research Catalog

Title

Change processes in child psychotherapy : revitalizing treatment and research / Stephen R. Shirk, Robert L. Russell.

Author

Shirk, Stephen R.

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Russell, Robert L.

Description

xv, 395 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• This groundbreaking work advances a developmental perspective on both the basic processes of therapeutic change and the classification of childhood problems, offering a novel approach to the search for effective treatments for children. Generating a new flow of ideas between clinical practice and empirical research, the volume revitalizes basic modalities such as psychodynamic, play, and cognitive therapies by identifying the core ingredients that enhance and retard the processes of change.
• The authors also demonstrate the limitations of utilizing diagnostic labels as the basis for assessing treatment efficacy, arguing instead for an integrative approach that links methods of intervention with a case-relevant analysis of the child's emotional, interpersonal, and cognitive development.

Subjects

• Mental Disorders > therapy
• Psychotherapy > Child
• Child psychiatry > Differential therapeutics
• Mental Disorders > Child
• Child psychotherapy
• Adjustment (Psychology) in children
• Personality change
• Child Psychiatry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-381) and index.

Contents

I. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Child Psychotherapy. 1. The Domain of Child Psychotherapy. 2. The Effects of Child Psychotherapy: Outcome Research. 3. The Process of Child Psychotherapy: Process Research. 4. Conceptual Interlude: Essential Ingredients for Revitalizing Child Psychotherapy -- II. Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy. 5. Interpersonal Change Processes. 6. Emotional Change Processes. 7. Cognitive Change Processes -- III. Case Formulations in Child Psychotherapy. 8. Treatment Selection: Formulations of Pathogenic Processes. 9. Formulation-Guided Child Psychotherapy: Case Studies. 10. Change Processes and Case Formulations: Conclusions.

ISBN

1572300957 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96015603

OCLC

• 34514439
• ocm34514439
• SCSB-4781391

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries