Individual Psychotherapy for Children in Foster Care: Possibilities and Limitations
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 1 (3) , 385-397
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104596013007
Abstract
This article gives an account of the conceptual framework informing the practice of child psychotherapy and its applicability to work with children in care. Case material is brought to illustrate the therapeutic potential of this approach, but also the limitations imposed by the need to ensure a sufficiently reliable setting for such a treatment. The consequences and the implications of the failure of that setting are discussed.Keywords
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