Transforming Despair to Hope : Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children (Paperback)

Foreword ? Peter Wilson

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The far reaching consequences of neglect and trauma in childhood.

Chapter 2 The historical and social context: influences on the treatment of severely neglected and traumatised children today.

Chapter 3. The absence of ‘holding’ and containment, and the absence of parental protection.

Chapter 4. Complex traumatic childhood losses: mourning and acceptance, endings and beginnings.

Chapter 5. Playing out not acting out: the development of the capacity to play in the therapy of children who are ‘in transition’ from fostering to adoption. (2008)

Chapter 6. ‘The playful presence of the therapist: ‘antidoting’ defences in the therapy of a late-adopted adolescent patient (2006)

Chapter 7. Transition and change: an exploration of the resonances between transitional and meditative states of mind and their role in the therapeutic process. (2012)

Chapter 8. The impact of listening on the listener: consultation to the helping professions who work with sexually abused young people. (2009)

Chapter 9. ‘Transforming despair to hope in the treatment of extreme trauma: a view from the supervisor’s chair’ (2016)