Change Processes in Child Psychotherapy: Revitalizing Treatment and Research

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.

Author: Stephen R. Shirk

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Publication Date: Aug 02, 1996

Number of Pages: 395 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1572300957

ISBN-13: 9781572300958