Waiting To Be Found : Papers on Children in Care.

This book is about children in State care and its title - Waiting to be Found - is derived from an observation about such children by the child psychotherapist Hamish Canham. In one of his early papers Canham wrote that children's homes often reminded him of "station waiting rooms with chi...

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Main Author: Briggs, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 2012
Series:TAVI.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; contents; series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; About the editor and contributors; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; PART I Canham:writer and clinical thinker; chapter one
  • Focusing on the relationship with the child; SELECTED PAPERS BY HAMISH CANHAM; chapter two
  • Growing up in residential care [1998]; chapter three
  • The development of the concept of time in fostered and adopted children [1999]; chapter four
  • Exporting the Tavistock model to social services: clinical consultative and teaching aspects [2000]; chapter five
  • Group and gang states of mind [2002].
  • Chapter six
  • The relevance of the Oedipus myth to fostered and adopted children [2003]chapter seven
  • Spitting, kicking and stripping: technical difficulties encountered in the treatment of deprived children [2004]; PART II Working with children in care; chapter eight
  • The expressed wishes and feelings of children; chapter nine
  • Innate possibilities: experiences of hope in child psychotherapy; chapter ten
  • The riddle of the Sphinx; chapter eleven
  • Neglect and its effects: understandings from developmental science and the therapist's countertransference.
  • Chapter twelve
  • Creating a "third position" to explore oedipal dynamics in the task and organization of a therapeutic schoolchapter thirteen
  • Facing reality: Oedipus and the organization; chapter fourteen
  • Turning a blind eye or daring to see: how might consultation and clinical interventions help Looked After Children and their carers to cope with mental pain?; chapter fifteen
  • Physical control, strip searching, and segregation: observations on the deaths of children in custody.
  • Chapter sixteen
  • Observation, containment, countertransference: the contribution of psychoanalytic thinking to contemporary relationship-based social work practiceEndpiece; Publications by Hamish Canham; References; Index.