Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Relational Approach

This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters are notably challenging to engage, often coming across as arrogant, defiant, and manipulative, their demeanor typically masks devastating experiences of vulnerability and pain. Illustrated throughout with compelling clinical examples, the book offers new insight into the nature and origins of disordered personality in childhood, the process by which these disorders develop, and the destructive cycles in which families (and clinicians) become unwittingly ensnared.