Early Encounters with Children and Adolescents

Early Encounters with Children and Adolescents is the first training guide to use the works of beginning therapists as its focus.

Steven Tuber, PhD, ABPP, is professor of psychology and director of clinical training in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City College of New York, where he has taught for nearly 30 years. He is the author of three critically acclaimed books: Attachment, Play, and Authenticity: A Winnicott Primer (2008), Starting Treatment with Children and Adolescents (2011), and Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing (2012).

1. Introduction Tuber 2. The Very First Patient: Becoming Real Together Boesch 3. How Do I Work with Parent and Child, Especially if I Am Not Yet a Parent? Yasai 4. How do I Work Long-term with a Child when I Only Have a Year to Work with Him?: The Conflicts Inherent in Time-Limited Therapy while in Clinical Training Freidin Baumann 5. Finding One's Self: Developing a Therapeutic Identity as a Beginning Therapist Doing Long-term Work Bowen 6. Modeling a Therapeutic Identity for a Beginning Therapist in Supervision Kaufmann 7. Building Safety and Containment: Responding to Challenges to the Freame with Both Parent and Child Caflisch 8. "Following the Affect": How My First Child Patient Helped Teach Me to Listen and See Royal 9. "Psychic Twins": A Pyscho-dynamically Informed Treatment of a Selectively Mute Adolescent and her Mother Berko 10. Passing the Baton from One Beginning Therapist to the Next: An Adolescent Treated by Two Successive Interns DeMille