Parent-Focused Child Therapy

This collection of essays from leading psychotherapists taps into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents in solving their children's problems. Wachs and Jacobs focus on identifying and evaluating a variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of attachment, identity and reflection.

Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York. Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

Part 1 Parent-focused Treatment Chapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on Chapters Chapter 3 Managing Childhood Behavior Chapter 4 Parental Level of Awareness Part 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma Chapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11 Part 8 Common Treatment Situations Chapter 9 The Initial Meetings Chapter 10 The Vulnerable Child Chapter 11 The Vulnerable Parent Chapter 12 Working with Easting Disorders Chapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition Model Chapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing Parents Part 15 Developing Refelctive Functions Chapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting Factor Chapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect Regulation Chapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills