Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

by Lenore Terr MD

Why and how therapy with even the most challenging kids can work. Terr presents highly effective child psychotherapeutic styles and techniques and demonstrates them in three ways: by relating “moments” from at least six of her own cases; by conveying and comparing “moments” from 33 of her distinguished colleagues’ cases; and by watching her “wild child” patient, little Cammie, develop her own eight “magical moments” over a period of fifteen years. These “moments” are rare. But by pooling them together, or by looking at how they develop over a long period of time in a single individual, readers are able to achieve further understanding of the process of change in child and adolescent psychotherapy.

Genres: Nonfiction, Counselling, Psychology

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 26, 2007

Reviews

[Amelia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good overall, but too psychoanalytical for my taste. Its focus on moments that largely bubble up from an experienced practitioner's unconscious limits it's utility for the new practitioner, like me. I was also somewhat annoyed by the author's frequent, unexamined (if mild and unassuming) references to her own and others' Christianity. I found some views and vignettes surprisingly normative. The case studies were especially enjoyable however, and there is good content. It was worth the read.

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book and really helpful for my job in counseling children. I especially enjoyed the many case studies included in the book.

[Jenifer Jacobs]

Mich says I have to read it. :-)