"What can the matter be?" : therapeutic interventions with parents, infants, and young children : the work of the Tavistock Clinic under fives service / edited by Louise Emanuel & Elizabeth Bradley ; foreword by Margaret Rustin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emanuel, Louise, 1953-

Bradley, Elizabeth, FRCPsych

Tavistock Clinic.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tavistock Clinic.

Preschool children--Mental health.

Preschool children.

Child rearing.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (847 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young children's communications and behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships within the consulting room in a lively, accessible style. It covers common themes in work with young children such as disruptive, angry behaviour, separation and sleep difficulties, and problems in the parent/couple relationship. This book is essential reading for all early years professionals hoping to gain a greater understanding of the technique, observational skills and theory which underlie a psychodynamic approach to work with the under fives.

Contents:

Cover Page; Tavistock Clinic Series; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; Introduction; I THEORY AND PRACTICE; Early developments; 1 Brief work with parents of infants; 2 The relation of infant observation to clinical practice in an under-fives counselling service; 3 Infant-parent psychotherapy: Selma Fraiberg's contribution to understanding the past in the present; Later developments; 4 The process of change in under-fives work

5 A slow unfolding-at double speed: therapeutic interventions with parents and their young children6 A sinking heart: whose problem is it? Under-fives work in the surgery of a general practitioner; II COMMON THEMES IN WORK WITH UNDER FIVES; Challenging and disruptive behaviour; 7 Anger between children and parents: how can we help?; 8 Disruptive and distressed toddlers: the impact of undetected maternal depression on infants and young children; 9 Where the wild things are: tantrums and behaviour problems in two under-fives boys; The parent couple and oedipal issues

10 Locating the ghost in the nursery: the importance of the parental couple11 Father "there and not there": the concept of a "united couple" in families with unstable partnerships; 12 Oedipal issues in under-fives families: creating a space for thinking; Separation and loss; weaning and growth; 13 Spanning presence and absence: separation anxiety in the early years; 14 Sleeping and feeding problems: attunement and daring to be different; 15 Holding the balance: life and death in the early years; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-282) and index.

ISBN:

0-429-92379-1

0-429-90956-X

0-429-48479-8

1-283-07045-6

9786613070456

1-84940-623-5

9780429484797

OCLC:

723943988