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Additional authors

1. Zelman, Arthur B.

Description

1. xxii, 353 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

1. Many children live in circumstances that threaten their emotional and physical development. What they face - abuse, abandonment, neglect, domestic violence, homelessness, and parental mental illness - is painful in the extreme. This book describes innovative intervention techniques and modalities proven effective with thousands of these children over the last three decades.
2. To demonstrate the treatment methods, pride of place is given to the children's (and parents') own voices and perceptions as well as to the therapeutic process itself. These interactions afford the reader an opportunity to appreciate both the depth of the children's dilemmas and the difficulties inherent in resolving them. There is the story of Sam, for example, a foster child whose mother repeatedly breaks her promises to take him back.
3. Sam must be helped to rely on his mother less in order to love himself more. What is described works. The treatment provides relief to the children in the here and now; follow-up data, including positive effects on IQ, family stability, and psychological functioning of individual children, show the positive results of treatment in their futures, as well.

Subject

1. Children with social disabilities > Mental health services
2. Mental Health Services
3. Psychologically abused children > Mental health services
4. Child psychotherapy
5. Child psychopathology > Prevention
6. Psychotherapy
7. Child Guidance

Contents

1. Foreword / Albert J. Solnit -- Preface - The Center for Preventive Psychiatry: Evolution of an Early Intervention Clinic / Arthur B. Zelman -- 1. Introduction - Prevention, the Medical Model, and Early Intervention / Arthur B. Zelman -- 2. Cornerstone: A Therapeutic Nursery for Severely Disadvantaged Children / Thomas Lopez, Norma Balter and Susan Howard [et al.] -- 3. Cornerstone, Steppingstone, Superstone: A Three-Phase, Long-Term Intensive Intervention for Extremely Stressed, Emotionally Disturbed Children / Rita Stewart and Laurie Mendik -- 4. Early Intervention for ADD / Richard Evans and Susan Berenzweig -- 5. Use of a Personal Life History Book in the Treatment of Foster Children - An Attempt to Enhance Stability of Foster Care Placements / Gilbert W. Kliman and Arthur B. Zelman -- 6. Treatment of Foster Children: Working through Loss to Facilitate Attachment / Shirley C. Samuels --
2. 7. The Treatment of Homeless Children and Families: Integrating Mental Health Services into a Head Start Model / Paul J. Donahue -- 8. The Use of Parentally Bereaved Adolescents as Therapeutic Assistants in Groups for Parentally Bereaved Children / Aviva Levy and Arthur B. Zelman -- 9. Strengthening Attachment in Anticipation of Loss: Treatment of a Parentally Bereaved (due to AIDS) 5-Year-Old Girl / Elissa Burian and Arthur B. Zelman -- 10. Successful Treatment of an 8-Year-Old School-Phobic Girl Using Tripartite Psychotherapy / Arthur B. Zelman and Elissa Burian -- 11. The P.A.C.T. Therapeutic Unit: Treating Mentally Ill Parents and Their Children Together in a Therapeutic Nursery / Bernard G. Pasquariella, Nancy Berlin and Janet Brown Lobel -- 12. Sustaining Psychotherapy: A Long-Term Modality for Chronically Stressed Children / Arthur B. Zelman and Elizabeth Jacobson --
3. 13. Use of a Questionnaire to Compare Daycare Staff and Mental Health Staff Attitudes: An Aid to Mental Health Consultation to Daycare / Arthur B. Zelman, Murray J. Friedman and Bernard Pasquariella -- 14. Comprehensive Mental Health Consultation to a Shelter for Battered Women: Preventive Implications / Rosetta M. Rhodes, Judith Brown Gordon and Arthur B. Zelman -- 15. Group Intervention with Parents and Children Sexually Abused in an Unlicensed Daycare Center / Ann S. Kliman and Arthur B. Zelman -- 16. IQ Changes in Young Children Following Intensive Long-Term Psychotherapy / Arthur B. Zelman, Shirley C. Samuels and David Abrams -- 17. Children's IQ Changes and Long-Term Psychotherapy: A Follow-up Study / Arthur B. Zelman and Shirley C. Samuels -- Epilogue / Arthur B. Zelman.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.