Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma: A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : July 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 274
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 98386
- ISBN 13 : 9780367491758
- ISBN 10 : 0367491753
Also by Nick Midgley
Also by Nicole Vliegen
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Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their caregivers.
The book provides a contemporary and comprehensive approach to working with traumatised children by integrating knowledge and skills from traditional psychodynamic child psychotherapy and more contemporary trauma-informed and mentalization-based frameworks. It advocates three tracks of work, involving direct work with the child, work with the child’s primary caregivers and work with the network. The book is divided into two parts: Part I of the book covers the theoretical background and Part II discusses the core components and phases of the trauma-informed and mentalization-based treatment approach. The authors bring out the specific dynamics of the psychotherapeutic work through four composite cases woven through the book.
Written in accessible language this treatment guide is primarily aimed at psychodynamically trained psychotherapists, mental health professionals and professional caregivers working with traumatised children.
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This is a text that child therapists have long needed. It brings together understandings which have historically been too separate, of the effects of complex trauma on children, alongside psychodynamic, attachment and developmental science, integrated into a deep but user-friendly and effective way of working not only with the child but also with the significant adults and systems around them. Clinicians, from the most experienced to newer therapists, will breathe a sigh of relief that this is available.
Dr Graham Music, Consultant psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, Author of Nurturing Children (2019) and Nurturing Natures (2016)
The present volume is much needed as communities around the world face more strife and conflict and complex trauma in children is increasingly common. The authors offer a concise and invaluable integration of clinical theory with insights into how therapists create a safe space to facilitate children’s recovery and growth. In language accessible for students as well as parents, the authors provide a vivid portrait behind the scenes of experienced therapists working with great skill with traumatized children and their families. Linda Mayes, Arnold Gesell Professor Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine
Child psychotherapists working in the psychodynamic tradition have always worked with children and families struggling with the effects of complex trauma. Yet there has been a lack of an integration of longstanding psychoanalytic clinical experience with contemporary ways of working with trauma emerging from other fields, including neuroscience, developmental psychology and mentalization-based work. Nicole Vliegen and her colleagues have produced an approachable and inspiring practice guide, which will be useful for any child psychotherapist working with traumatised fostered and adopted children. Especially useful is the three-track treatment approach: direct therapy with the child has to be combined with active work with the parents/carers and the wider network for the work to have a lasting impact.
Maria Papadima, PhD, Editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy; Senior Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist in the NHS Service for Adolescents and Families in Enfield (SAFE)
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
1. A contemporary psychodynamic perspective on and approach to complex trauma
2. Complex trauma and profound disruptions in four domains of child development
3. Complex trauma and the challenge to mentalizing capacities in parents and the network
PART II. THE THREE-TRACK TREATMENT APPROACH
4. The three-track treatment approach: core features and basic principles
5. Assessment of ‘child within family’ development
6. Direct work with the child
7. Work with parents
8. Work with the network
9. Working towards ending
About the Author(s)
Nicole Vliegen is Full Professor in Clinical Psychology at KU Leuven, Belgium, where she heads the postgraduate training programmes in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy and Infant Mental Health. She is a licensed psychodynamic child psychotherapist, and heads the team of psychodynamic child psychotherapists at PraxisP, the clinical centre of KU Leuven.
Eileen Tang is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Psychology at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. She is a licensed psychodynamic child psychotherapist and is part of the team of psychodynamic child psychotherapists at PraxisP, the clinical centre of KU Leuven.
Nick Midgley is Academic Course Director of the doctorate in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the British Psychotherapy Foundation/Anna Freud Centre and Lecturer in the Research Department of Clinical Educational and Health Psychology, UCL.
Patrick Luyten, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium; Reader in the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom; and Visiting Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. His research focuses on the role of personality, stress, and interpersonal processes in depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. He is also currently involved in studies on mentalization-based treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. Dr. Luyten serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals and is a recipient of the Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contribution Award from the International Psychoanalytical Association. He also maintains a private practice.
Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.
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