This [book] offers a framework to make sense of childhood personality disorders, distinguish them from more frequently diagnosed childhood conditions, and respond appropriately to neurobiological, psychodynamic, and developmental perspectives. [The author] presents an effective treatment model grounded in research and ... clinical experience ... The author first explores the nature and clinical presentation of childhood personality disorders ... The book then takes the clinician step-by-step through offering multimodal interventions that incorporate individual psychotherapy, family treatment, and pharmacotherapy ... Emphasizing the importance of the therapeutic alliance, the book gives particular attention to ways that therapists can understand and work with their own emotional reactions in highly charged clinical situations.-Dust jacket.
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Personality traits are pervasive and enduring patterns of the ways individuals perceive, relate to, think about, and behave within their environment. When these traits become inflexible and maladaptive they constitute...
Key areas featured in the Handbook: The history of research on BPD in childhood and adolescence. Conceptualization and assessment issues. Etiology and core components of BPD. Developmental course and psychosocial correlates.
Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents is a comprehensive guide to BPD, offering an overview of the disorder, its treatment options, and advice on how to live with it day-to-day.
Although initially developed as a targeted preventive intervention implemented in schools, Coping Power has also been delivered as a treatment for clinic-referred children with CP (e.g., van de Wiel et al., 2007). Coping Power can be ...
Lina Normandin, Ph.D., Karin Ensink, Ph.D., Alan Weiner, Ph.D., Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. ... Arch Gen Psychiatry 63(3):332–339, 2006 Harter S: The developing self, in Child and Adolescent Development: An Advanced Course.
With contributions from prominent experts, this pragmatic book takes a close look at the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents.
“Apart from a few minor blips, Lindsey is doing very well, and we're all making strides together and apart. I'm learning to take it day to day, and we're both learning to enforce the positive and draw lines in the sand with the negative ...
The future holds great hope as well as tremendous challenges for children's mental health. This important work is a must for all professionals who work with children and adolescents and wish to advance the progress of care.
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