Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents: Today’s Challenge

263 Pages·2010·0.97 MB·English

by  John Tsiantis

ASSESSING CHANGE IN
PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
The EFPP Book Series
Series Editors: Monica Lanyado and Didier Houzel
Series English Copy Editor: Jenny Cottam
OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES
Chief Editor: John Tsiantis
(cid:129) Counter-transference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with
Children and Adolescents
(cid:129) Supervision and its Vicissitudes
(cid:129) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings
(cid:129) Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed
Adolescent
(cid:129) Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children
and Adolescents
(cid:129) Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and
the Future
(cid:129) Research in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults
(cid:129) The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic
Process
(cid:129) Invisible Boundaries. Psychosis and Autism in Children and
Adolescents
(cid:129) The Development of Consciousness: Psychoanalysis, neuroscience
and child development
(cid:129) The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept
(cid:129) Crossing Borders - Integrating Differences: Psychoanaltyic
Psychotherapy in Transition
(cid:129) Play and Power
ASSESSING CHANGE
IN PSYCHOANALYTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY
OF CHILDREN AND
ADOLESCENTS
Today’s Challenge
Edited by
John Tsiantis and Judith Trowell
First published in 2010 by
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Copyright © 2010 by John Tsiantis and Judith Trowell
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
John Tsiantis and Judith Trowell
ABOUT THE AUTHORS ix
SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE xiii
Monica Lanyado and Didier Houzel
FOREWORD xv
Daniel Widlöcher
INTRODUCTION xix
John Tsiantis
CHAPTER ONE
Child and adolescent psychotherapy research:
Clinical applications 1
Eilis Kennedy
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CHAPTER TWO
Integrating research in a clinical setting for child
psychotherapy: A case study about facilitating
and hindering factors in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 29
Siv Boalt Boëthius
CHAPTER THREE
What does a manual contribute? 55
Judith Trowell, Maria Rhode and Jackie Hall
CHAPTER FOUR
Focused systematic case studies: An approach linking
clinical work and research 93
Gunnar Carlberg
CHAPTER FIVE
The Heidelberg study of psychodynamic psychotherapy
for children and adolescents 115
Klaus-Thomas Kronmüller MD, Annette Stefini,
Annette Geiser-Elze, Hildegard Horn, Mechtild Hartmann
and Klaus Winkelmann MD
CHAPTER SIX
Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD):
A field for contemporary psychoanalysis?: Some clinical,
conceptual and neurobiological considerations based
on the Frankfurt Prevention Study 139
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber and Tamara Fischmann
CHAPTER SEVEN
Research on therapeutic processes: In psychodynamic
psychotherapy with children and adolescents 177
Stephen R. Shirk and Rebecca A. Burwell
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ethical principles in conducting research with children
and adolescents 207
Euthymia D. Hibbs Ph.D.
INDEX 225
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book was conceived during discussions between the first of
the editors and the late Professor Issy Kolvin, to whom both John
Tsiantis and Judith Trowell express their gratitude. We also wish to
express our thanks to the authors of this book who tackle the sub-
ject through their knowledge of various theoretical perspectives and
clinical experience from both Europe and the USA.
We also wish to express our thanks to the Chief Editors of the
series as well as the Executive of EFPP. Finally we express our thanks
to Nadia Katsougris and Zetta Iliopoulou, PA’s to Professor Tsiantis
for their work in preparing this manuscript.
John Tsiantis and Judith Trowell
Athens, October 2008
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Boëthius Siv Boalt is a licensed clinical psychologist and a psycho-
analyst. She is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Education,
Stockholm University and former principal of the Erica Foundation,
a university college working with psychotherapy for children and
adolescents, training programs and research. She was Chairperson of
the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP)
from 2003 to 2007 and now works mainly with research and organi-
sational development in Sweden and at an international level. She
has published a large number of articles and books on organisational
development, group supervision and psychotherapy research.
Rebecca Burwell, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Westfield State
College. She received her M.Phil. in social and developmental psy-
chology from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D., in child
clinical psychology from the University of Denver. Her research
deals with cognitive, interpersonal, and emotional vulnerability to
depression among children and adolescents.
Gunnar Carlberg, Ph.D., is an associate professor. He is Director of
the Erica Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, an institute providing
psychotherapy for children and adolescents, professional training
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