ABSTRACT
Since child psychotherapy first began in the consulting rooms of our psychoanalytic forebears such as Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Donald Winnicott and Michael Fordham, there have been many developments in the field, both theoretical and in terms of trainings. Application of the thinking accumulated by the profession has been made in terms of consultation to those in related fields of child mental health and primary health care. This chapter sets out to document some of these developments as they have grown and multiplied around the world. It may well not be an exhaustive list or cover every development in each country, but in the variety of approaches and the geographical span of the work it will show how those beginnings over fifty years ago have seeded themselves worldwide.
