Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment

by Alicia F. Lieberman, Patricia Van Horn

This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child–parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when stress and trauma have disrupted the quality of the parent–child relationship. The book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework together with practical strategies for combining play, developmental guidance, trauma-focused interventions, and concrete assistance with problems of living. Filled with evocative, "how-to-do-it" examples, it is grounded in extensive clinical experience and important research on early development, attachment, neurobiology, and trauma.

Genres: Psychology, Parenting, Social Work

366 pages, Hardcover

First published April 8, 2008

Reviews

[Heidi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really am going to read this all the way through this time. I'm reading it for CEUs for my license.

[Tania Bradkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

PHENOMENAL MODALITY LOVE LOVE LOVE will write more later

[Rebecca Blanco · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing book focused on research along with real life case scenario is that perfectly explain what was talked about in the chapter.

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is substantial research underpinning the topics discussed in this text. Importantly, this book manages to address this research, without losing its focus on the complexity that 'real life practice' brings to research interpretation. The only criticism I have is that it does tend to be quite medicalised, and assumes that 'problems' should be solved by doing certain things. The book would have benefited from more critical realism discussion about the variables that influence outcomes within treatment interventions.