Treating personality disorders in children and adolescents : a relational approach
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Treating personality disorders in children and adolescents : a relational approach
Guilford Press, c2001
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: hbk ISBN 9781572306981
Description
While personality disorders traditionally have been conceptualized only in adults, it is not uncommon to encounter children and adolescents with the classic diagnostic signs. Youngsters with personality disorders may come across as strikingly arrogant, defiant, and manipulative, yet their demeanor typically masks devastating experiences of vulnerability and pain. This groundbreaking volume offers a framework to make sense of childhood personality disorders, distinguish them from more frequently diagnosed childhood conditions, and respond appropriately to the challenges this population presents. Interweaving neurobiological, psychodynamic, and developmental perspectives, Efrain Bleiberg presents an effective treatment model grounded in research and extensive clinical experience. All therapists working with children and adolescents will find vital insights and strategies in this lucidly written book.
The author first explores the nature and clinical presentation of childhood personality disorders. Diverse theoretical and empirical literatures are integrated to show how a combination of constitutional vulnerability, attachment difficulties, and trauma may impair the child's capacity to interpret and respond to the world in human, meaningful terms. Elucidated are the processes by which specific personality disorders develop when children--and caregivers--become trapped in rigid, maladaptive patterns of feeling, coping, and relating. The book then takes the clinician step-by-step through offering multimodal interventions that incorporate individual psychotherapy, family treatment, and pharmacotherapy. Compelling case vignettes and transcripts bring to life the inner worlds of these frightened young people and the clinicians who work with them, showing how treatment can help achieve intrapsychic change, free inhibited development, and modify the child's family context. Emphasizing the importance of the therapeutic alliance, the book gives particular attention to ways that therapists can understand and work with their own emotional reactions in highly charged clinical situations.
Providing a unique, research-based approach to working with a notably difficult-to-treat population, this book belongs on the desks of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other clinicians working with children and adolescents. Rendering complex ideas accessible, it will also be an invaluable resource for graduate-level students and trainees in these fields.
Winner--Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Table of Contents
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Attachment and Reflective Function
3. Psychological Organization and the World of Mental Representations
4. Trauma, Vulnerability, and the Development of Severe Personality Disorders
5. Antisocial and Narcissistic Children and Adolescents
6. Histrionic and Borderline Children and Adolescents
7. Beginning Treatment: Creating a Secure Base and a Representational Mismatch
8. Early Stages of Treatment: Forming the Alliance and Enhancing Reflective Function
9. Middle and Late Stages of Treatment: Using Connection to Move toward Integration
10. Residential Treatment and the Continuum of Services
11. Pharmacological Treatment
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: pbk ISBN 9781593850180
Description
This groundbreaking volume presents a framework for understanding personality disorders in children, distinguishing them from more frequently diagnosed problems, and delivering effective interventions. Efrain Bleiberg draws on extensive clinical experience and cutting-edge neurobiological research to illuminate how specific personality disorders develop when children--and caregivers--become trapped in rigid, maladaptive patterns of feeling, coping, and relating. Strategies are described for integrating individual psychotherapy, family treatment, and pharmacotherapy to provide meaningful help to this highly challenging population. With particular attention to building and maintaining a strong therapeutic alliance, the book includes case vignettes and transcripts that bring each stage of treatment to life.
Winner--Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Attachment and Reflective Function
3. Psychological Organization and the World of Mental Representations
4. Trauma, Vulnerability, and the Development of Severe Personality Disorders
5. Antisocial and Narcissistic Children and Adolescents
6. Histrionic and Borderline Children and Adolescents
7. Beginning Treatment: Creating a Secure Base and a Representational Mismatch
8. Early Stages of Treatment: Forming the Alliance and Enhancing Reflective Function
9. Middle and Late Stages of Treatment: Using Connection to Move toward Integration
10. Residential Treatment and the Continuum of Services
11. Pharmacological Treatment
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