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    Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice

    Editors: Roz Read and Jeanne Magagna

    £28.79 – £41.99

    Taking some of the most innovative ways of reaching young children and their parents, this book demonstrates how psychotherapists can bring together some of the key elements of the psychotherapeutic tradition with new and creative ways using the arts, metaphor, play and bodywork.

    Look inside! We’re delighted to give free access to Roz Read‘s inspiring chapter ‘Finding and nurturing the gold: an integrative approach to working with an adopted adolescent and her parent’. Read it here.

    Book launch: Watch a recording of the live virtual launch of the book, featuring editors Roz Read and Jeanne Magagna as they discuss the work that inspired the book with guest speakers Jane O’Rourke and Dan Hughes.

    Editors

    Roz Read and Jeanne Magagna

    ISBN

    9781912691968

    Format

    Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book

    Page Extent

    400

    Publication Date

    April 2022

    Subject Areas

    Child & Adolescent Studies

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    Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice demonstrates the step-by-step process of developing the depth of understanding, creativity, knowledge and skill that underpin a modern integrative child psychotherapist. Portrayed is a flexible model that is fluid and evolving, bringing together traditional, long-held ideas with fresh perspectives and up-to-date research. In bringing together psychoanalytic theory, attachment theory, trauma theories, the arts and creativity, neuroscience and the body, a rich framework is created. From this, the individual integrative child psychotherapist can choose the interventions which best foster the emotional development of each unique child and their parents today.

    About the editors

    About the editors

    Roz Read is Programme Director of the Integrative Child Psychotherapy training at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and a UKCP-registered integrative child psychotherapist. With a background working in the arts, Roz has worked extensively with children and teenagers in multicultural inner-city community projects, schools, and multidisciplinary teams for over 30 years. For the past 13 years, Roz has worked with adopted, LAC, and permanently placed children and their families. She currently works within PAC-UK (formerly the Post Adoption Centre) and prior to this worked at Family Futures. Roz is also visiting lecturer and co-convenor of the Neuroscience and Attachment Workshop at the Tavistock Centre, and a freelance trainer and clinical supervisor. She has a special interest in integrating treatment approaches for developmental trauma, attachment and working with the body, and is an accredited dyadic developmental psychotherapist and somatic experiencing® practitioner.

    Dr Jeanne Magagna aims to help people observe the deeper aspects of infants’ personalities in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting. She has edited or co-edited: Intimate Transformations, The Silent Child, Creativity and Psychotic State, Psychotherapy with Families, Universals of Psychoanalysis, and Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child, all of which show how careful observation and empathic understanding of infants and children, and collaboration with and support for parents, can ensure babies’ rights to good parental care. Previously a Head Start teacher, university teacher, and special educator, she was then head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and was a consultant psychotherapist in Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in London. Jeanne is a child and adolescent psychotherapist (PhD level), family psychotherapist, and adult psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Previously coordinator of training, she currently teaches at the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock model trainings in Florence and Venice, Italy. She is in private practice in London as a child, adult and family therapist, as well as consulting, publishing, and teaching worldwide.

    Contents

    Contents

    Acknowledgements
    About the editors and contributors
    Foreword by Dan Hughes
    Introduction by Roz Read

    Chapter 1
    Addicted to action, fear of being
    Graham Music

    Chapter 2
    Experiences of being held: creating a space to think and play within a family
    Neela Basu

    Chapter 3
    The effects of chronic trauma and neglect
    Karlien Smith-Claassens

    Chapter 4
    Porges meets Winnicott
    Irene Alberione

    Chapter 5
    Autism and sensory sensitivity
    Jessica Olive

    Chapter 6
    “Finding Dory”: a story of an eight year old’s journey from loss to hope and strength
    Celine Allder

    Chapter 7
    Making sense of the pieces
    Adina Belloli

    Chapter 8
    Space rockets and mobile homes: reaching the place of hope by traversing the landscape of trauma and loss
    Sarah Marx

    Chapter 9
    All in bits: trauma, fragmentation, and the journey of piecing back together
    Megan Holland

    Chapter 10
    Safety, trust, and maternal deprivation
    Maria Furlong

    Chapter 11
    Working in schools: parents and the system around the child
    Liz Murray-Bligh

    Chapter 12
    Building a therapeutic service in schools: the role of an integrative child psychotherapist
    Jane Brinson

    Chapter 13
    Empathising with defences through the use of arts and metaphor
    Clair Lewoski

    Chapter 14
    Finding and nurturing the gold: an integrative approach to working with an adopted adolescent and her parent
    Roz Read

    Chapter 15
    Developing a “cradle of concern” using transference and countertransference in therapy and supervision
    Jeanne Magagna

    Index

    7 reviews for Contemporary Child Psychotherapy: Integration and Imagination in Creative Clinical Practice

    1. Peter Wilson, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and founder and former director of YoungMinds – 11/01/2022

      ‘The spirit of this book resides in its abiding pursuit of greater integration – integration of all sorts, whether it be the bringing together of the many facets of ourselves or of the systems which surround us; or whether it be the numerous ways of understanding and improving the often tragic lives of some of the children it serves. One of the remarkable qualities of this book is its readiness to embrace a whole array of different theories and therapeutic approaches to enable children, and the adults around them, to make sense of the various pieces of their troubled childhoods and thus generate hope for the future. For twenty years, the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education (IATE) has built a four-year training programme in integrative child psychotherapy that forcefully draws on the imagination of the arts, the insights of psychoanalysis, the discoveries of neuroscience, and the body realities of biology and physiology. The training is without doubt a thorough and strenuous experience and calls forth not only the academic abilities of trainees but, more importantly, their capacities to observe and reflect on their own emotional experiences.’

    2. Dr Zack Eleftheriadou, parent–infant and child psychotherapist, chartered psychologist, and fellow of the British Psychological Society – 11/01/2022

      ‘This is a collection of lively and creative clinical chapters on contemporary child psychotherapy edited by two very experienced child psychotherapists. The book provides a carefully thought through way of working, a particular “blend” of integrative theoretical approaches and skills. The authors draw from the best aspects of the integrative approach, including the use of the arts, and these are combined with key psychoanalytic ingredients – such as working with the transference and countertransference processes. All the different ingredients have been put together thoughtfully and with great care. The clinical examples demonstrate the significance of empathic attunement and the centrality of the therapeutic relationship. Finally we have a text that can provide helpful and user-friendly ways to work with children in an integrative way – valuing the arts and the metaphors which emerge in therapeutic play, utilising psychodynamic thinking, and providing links to the latest neuroscience research. With the help of the vividly described case studies, I have no doubt that this book will be essential reading for students on child counselling and psychotherapy courses, as well as being important for other mental health professionals seeking contemporary ways of working therapeutically with children.’

    3. Griselda Kellie-Smith, retired psychotherapist and supervisor and co-founder of B.A.S.E.® Babywatching UK – 11/01/2022

      ‘This wonderful collection of papers offers child and adolescent psychotherapists invaluable insights into the many facets of an integrative training. They fit together into a containing, mindful cradle of concern and safety. Wise voices, some newly qualified, some with many years of experience, encourage owning the pain of inevitable mis-attunement, working with one foot in the ditch, one foot on the bank to enable being alongside the children we work with while remaining anchored enough to think and feel clearly. Inspirational stories of observation and working with children through metaphor, story, and art materials are underpinned by the vital role countertransference and mentalization play in both therapy and supervision. I wish such a helpful, wise, encouraging resource had existed when I first set out on the exciting, often daunting, journey of child psychotherapy.’

    4. Jane O’Rourke, psychodynamic child, adolescent, and family psychotherapist and founder of MINDinMIND – 11/01/2022

      ‘When it comes to the mental health of children and their families, it is vital that the best thinking and practice is utilised in our therapeutic work. This is what readers will find in this unique book which integrates key ideas and theories in child psychotherapy that have been found to be the most effective. The thinking comes alive through case examples showing transformative and often touching work with traumatised children. It embraces the latest research in neuroscience, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, and developmental approaches, which have shifted our understanding of how trauma affects both the minds and bodies of children. There is no one particular way of therapeutic work that is effective for all children; we need to be flexible and knowledgeable enough of different techniques and ideas to help children, wherever they are and however difficult their experience. Here, the multi-theoretical approach and depth of thinking drawn from different child therapy disciplines makes this a vital, playful, and rewarding read for students and experienced practitioners alike.’

    5. Dr Margot Sunderland, co-founding director of the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, director of Education and Training for the Centre of Child Mental Health, and co-director of Trauma Informed Schools UK – 11/01/2022

      ‘This book is a vital resource for anyone working therapeutically with children. The easily accessible language and moving case examples will touch the hearts of readers, not just their minds. So many child counselling and psychotherapy books fail to address what the practitioner did or said. In contrast, in this book there is a wealth of verbatim sections of actual sessions. This brings the children discussed to life, and clearly demonstrates the process of both therapeutic engagement and relational change. The book consistently supports the integration of different ways of working, bringing together traditional ideas from psychoanalysis with new cutting-edge and evidence-based interventions. Throughout, the authors demonstrate how integration serves children far better than sticking rigidly to one approach or methodology. The use of play and the arts are integral to the text, demonstrating just how profoundly they can provide in-depth and psychologically safe exploration of core pain when everyday words fail to do justice to the child’s experience. In summary, a fabulous read that just flows off the page, supporting best practice for those who are working therapeutically with children or who want to do so.’

    6. Paddy Martin, Gwent Parent Infant Mental Health Service, ‘Journal of Child Psychotherapy’, 48:3 – 06/04/2023

      ‘[T]his book is truly engaging. At times, the material and clinical perspectives are absorbing. The structure of the book seeks to demonstrate the approach through a range of writers of varying level of experience and training, providing a developmental experience in itself. It is not a book that needs necessarily to be read in a linear fashion, from start to finish, but rather becomes a handbook of ICPT that can be dipped into as needed.’

    7. Tamsin Cottis, child psychotherapist, UKCP, BJP 2023 – 06/04/2023

      ‘significant and comprehensive […] The book is a significant contribution to the understanding and practice of child psychotherapy, which is revealed on its pages to support children in moving forward in their often difficult lives, offering precious opportunities to build better relationships with themselves and others. Additionally, the book supports child psychotherapists, individually and as a profession, to see how different theoretical approaches can speak to each other, and be deployed in complementary ways, with flexibility and fluency. Such an approach speaks to the intersubjectivity which is at the heart of the therapy relationship.’

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