Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents

A Relational Approach

Efrain Bleiberg

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Hardcover
September 17, 2001
ISBN 9781572306981
Price: $92.00
348 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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Paperback
February 10, 2004
ISBN 9781593850180
Price: $42.00
348 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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This groundbreaking volume presents a framework for understanding personality disorders in children, distinguishing them from more frequently diagnosed problems, and delivering effective interventions. Efrain Bleiberg draws on extensive clinical experience and cutting-edge neurobiological research to illuminate how specific personality disorders develop when children—and caregivers—become trapped in rigid, maladaptive patterns of feeling, coping, and relating. Strategies are described for integrating individual psychotherapy, family treatment, and pharmacotherapy to provide meaningful help to this highly challenging population. With particular attention to building and maintaining a strong therapeutic alliance, the book includes case vignettes and transcripts that bring each stage of treatment to life.

Winner—Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis