ABSTRACT
In child and adolescent therapy there are often larger systems involved. Group homes, child welfare organisations, hospitals and schools become part of the team. A community team that works well together can provide a holistic approach that supports the child or adolescent through recovery. Each person on the team has their own background, histories, training, relative experience or inexperience, and their own beliefs and understandings of what the child needs. It can be a struggle to pull together a team from different agencies that can cooperate and work well together. Young people with complex trauma or dissociative disorders present challenges to this already difficult process. Transference and countertransference have a significant impact on the process and outcome of therapy. "Survivors of childhood trauma bring the abuse related interpersonal assumptions of their childhood trauma into their relationships, including the therapeutic relationship".
