Childhood Depression

A Place for Psychotherapy

Gillian Miles, Judith Trowell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780367323684
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429911842
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Abnormal Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from depression could be helped using brief focused psychodynamic psychotherapy together with parent work and family therapy. There were also centres in Athens, Greece and Helsinki, Finland, and in this way the clinicians had sufficient subjects from which to compare the interventions and check for any possible cultural differences in the results. Most of the children and young people studied showed a noticeable improvement. The book contains chapters by the clinicians involved describing their work as well as a section containing the scientific papers that emerged from the project. It is hoped that this may encourage the use of similar approaches to working in the field, especially in these days when there is such a demand for psychological therapies.

Index

Abbass, A. A., 90, 91

Abraham, K., 19, 25, 26, 28, 128

absent fathers, 72

abuse, physical, 86

accidents, 23, 27, 222

acting in, 47, 48, 58, 59, 69

definition, 254

acting out, 67, 73

definition, 255

Adelson, E., 69, 128

ADHD, 148, 150, 206

adolescents/adolescence, 20, 76, 125, 135, 202, 203, 248, 249

and brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (case study), 89-109

girls, rates of depression in, 22

identity in, 33

confusion, 93

time-limited clinical work with, 33-56

see also childhood; depression

affective disorders, 22

in pre-pubescent children, 19

aggression, 25, 26, 45, 76, 92, 96, 101, 102, 128-130

consequences of, preoccupation with, 136

Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, 204, 224

Akiskal, H. S., 20

allocation, random, 9, 17, 114, 247

Almqvist, F., xviii, 201, 226-238

alpha element(s)/function, definition, 255

Altham, P., 24

Alvarez, A., 31, 75, 85, 132, 250

analytic framework as maternal holding environment, 94

Andersen, T., 156

Anderson, H., 155

Angold, A., 21, 22, 168, 171, 206, 258

annihilation anxiety, 127

anorexia nervosa, 206

antidepressants, 10, 171, 201, 204, 223, 236

Antony, J., 19

anxiety(ies) (passim):

annihilation, 127

and childhood depression, co-morbidity of, 21, 168-198

depressive, 27

anxiety(ies) (continued):

disorders, 21, 171, 218

co-morbid, 25

generalized, 206, 257

existential, 15, 27, 127, 128...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
• FOREWORD
• I Introduction
• II Individual therapy
• III Family therapy
• IV Research
• V Conclusions
• GLOSSARY
• REFERENCES
• INDEX