Strategies of Therapeutic Contact: Working with Children with Severe Object Relationship Disturbance
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 31 (4) , 605-617
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1977.31.4.605
Abstract
This article discusses the strategies for making contact with severely disturbed children from the viewpoint of developmental ego psychology. Four stages of object development are described and the strategies for making contact at the various levels of impairment are explained in detail.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: