Time-Limited, Intermittent Therapy with Children and Families

Kreilkamp, Thomas

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“…Finally, managed care, and specifically HMOs, emerged in the mid-1980s as an increasingly powerful force. Adhering to the philosophy espoused by HMOs, time-limited, intermittent therapy for children became standard for clinical service (Kreilkamp, 1989). Using this model, the child therapist seeks to resolve the presenting problem in a rapid, practical manner, not relying on any one single treatment but using several treatment strategies simultaneously.…”

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D’Angelo¹,

Koocher²

History of Psychotherapy: Continuity and Change (2nd Ed.).

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In this chapter, we trace the blooming field of child psychotherapy in historical perspective and speculate about future developments. We begin with a discussion of early treatments and move on to explore the organizing constructs of the therapeutic alliance, use of interpretation, integration of developmental issues, evolution of the child guidance movement, and influences of institutional and social policy. EARLIEST EFFORTS AT CHILD TREATMENTJean-Marc Itard probably began the earliest attempt at child psychotherapy documented in the scholarly literature when he sought to "civilize" the "wild boy of Aveyron" (Itard, 1799(Itard, /1932. The child, whom Itard called Victor, appeared 10 to 12 years old when discovered living in the wild and presumably on his own since the age of 2 or 3. Itard used an intensive treatment,

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Section: Impact Of Institutional Economic and Social Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%