Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy

321 Pages·2011·1.228 MB·English

by  Judith Trowell, Gillian Miles

CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION
Tavistock Clinic Series
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CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION
A Place for Psychotherapy
Edited by
Judith Trowell
with
Gillian Miles
Foreword by
Michael Rustin
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CONTENTS
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xv
FOREWORD xxi
I Introduction
1 The Childhood Depression Project
Judith Trowell & Emilia Dowling 3
2 Background: a short history
of the recognition of childhood depression
Judith Trowell 18
II Individual therapy
3 The wake-up call of adolescence:
time-limited clinical work with three young people
Agathe Gretton 33
vii
viii CONTENTS
4 Lost boys: aspects of projective identification,
countertransference, and enactment with three boys
Jane Cassidy 57
5 Affirming a sense of agency:
the influence of supervision in once-weekly,
time-limited work with a depressed child patient
Jackie Hall 74
6 Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy
in adolescent depression: two case studies
Stelios Christogiorgos, Eleni Stavrou,
Marie-Ange Widdershoven-Zervaki, & John Tsiantis 89
7 The work with the parents alongside
individual therapy with the children/young people:
present and absent parents
Gillian Miles 110
8 Some reflections on the individual therapy:
themes and interventions
Maria Rhode 125
III Family therapy
9 The family therapists’ experience
Sue McNab, David Pentecost, Vicky Bianco,
& Henia Goldberg 139
10 Systemic supervision in the context
of a research project: the supervisors’ perspective
Sara Barratt & Emilia Dowling 154
11 Co-morbidity: childhood depression
and anxiety in family therapy
David Campbell 168
CONTENTS ix
IV Research
12 Childhood depression: a place for psychotherapy
Judith Trowell & Ilan Joffe 201
13 Psychodynamic and family psychotherapy for
young people with major depression: preliminary
findings on their psychosocial adjustment
Gerasimos Kolaitis, Valeria Pomini, Vlasis Tomaras,
Olga Maratos, Effie Layiou-Lignos, & John Tsiantis 221
14 Depressed children and young people:
treatment outcome and changes in family
functioning in individual and family therapy
Finn Ferdinand Garoff, Kati Heinonen,
Anu-Katriina Pesonen, & Fredrik Almqvist 226
V Conclusions
15 Reflections and thoughts: learning from the study
Judith Trowell & Emilia Dowling 241
GLOSSARY 253
REFERENCES 259
INDEX 281