Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

The question, "Why and how does child psychotherapy work?" underlies everything in this book. To answer this fundamental question, Lenore Terr contacted leading child and adolescent psychiatrists around the world. Selecting from an overwhelming response, she compiled vignettes that clearly expressed what the doctor says, does, and thinks. Terr presents highly effective child psychotherapeutic styles and techniques and demonstrates them in three ways: by relating moments from at least six of her own cases; by conveying and comparing moments from 33 of her distinguished colleagues cases; and by watching her 'wild child' patient, little Cammie, develop her own eight magical moments over a period of fifteen years. These moments are rare. But by pooling them together, or by looking at how they develop over a long period of time in a single individual, readers are able to achieve further understanding of the process of change in child and adolescent psychotherapy.