The simultaneous treatment of parent and child

the long version

Until now, therapists who simultaneously treat parent and child have not had a book to guide them through the complicated issues involved in their work. In this groundbreaking book, Saralea E. Chazan, co-author of Children with Conduct Disorders and a well-known child psychologist, lays out the theoretical base for working with both parent and child. Chazan shows how the therapist can work with parent and child in separate or combined sessions, and how to proceed when one patient (either the parent or child) starts individual therapy and is later joined by the other patient seeing the same therapist. Richly illustrated with lengthy case studies, this book addresses all the practical issues confronting the therapist and illustrates specific problems that parent and child face in the treatment of developmental delay, gender identity disorder, and personality disorder. By allowing themselves to work simultaneously with parent and child, therapists can gain significant insights into the representational worlds of parent and child and can more effectively work on the critical bonds between the two. This detailed, important book is sure to instruct the many therapists who help parents and children become healthier individuals and form healthier families.