ABSTRACT
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is firmly rooted in an approach which values inter-disciplinary working for the contribution which the thinking of each discipline makes to the overall endeavour with the child and family. It also places great importance on multi-agency collaboration, especially with social services and education, without which no intervention with this group of children can succeed. The book represents the differing ways in which members contribute to the work of the team, with individual and joint accounts by clinicians of the ways in which their therapeutic practice has evolved and about the theoretical thinking on which it is based.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
Theoretical Considerations
part II|61 pages
Psychotherapeutic Work with Children
part III|68 pages
Psychotherapeutic Work with Parents and Families
part IV|42 pages
Consultative Work with Parents, Families, and Professionals
part V|33 pages
Work in Different Settings
part VI|12 pages
A Family’s Perspective