Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2067975
David Price
ABSTRACT Rarely do we hear a narrative written in the first person, written from the perspective of a child who grew up in the foster care system. This paper provides a window into the interior world of a child who experienced traumatic loss and abandonment. This child–born to emigrant Jamaican parents–grew up in the foster care system in the UK from the early 1970ʹs through the late 1980ʹs. This first-person account is written from the perspective of a child, but also from the perspective of a licensed social worker, a clinician with 26+ years of experience working with foster care youth and families. The writer is a graduate of The New School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where he received training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. This narrative is just one perspective of a personal journey, and in no way aims to speak for all children who grow up in the foster care system. Given some of the emotionally charged content in this paper, a few details are written in a deliberately vague way to protect the privacy of all persons involved.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2050660
Fang Duan
ABSTRACT This essay describes a treatment with a young Chinese woman whom I call Lily. It deepened during the COVID pandemic when the vulnerability and tenacity of therapeutic aspiration of my patient and me brought forth a serious reckoning in me with my hitherto largely unexamined understanding and practice of psychoanalysis as “epistemological,” foregrounding knowledge, insights, and explicit verbal intervention. I became more aware of an “ontological” dimension of psychoanalytic work that emphasizes “being” and “becoming,” and asks basic questions such as “who are we,” “what are we like to each other,” and “what we could possibly be like.” For me, this changed vision of psychoanalytic work leads to a focus more on cultivating a deep human bond between the analyst and the patient and recognizing a fragile but also potentially powerful “therapeutic striving” presumably inherent in all humans. This shift in conceptual and clinical focus brought about significant change and growth both in my patient and in me.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2045465
Francine Conway, K. Ensink, Melissa Farsang, Stephanie J. Lyon, Mirjam Burger-Calderon
ABSTRACT This paper documents a case consultation by Dr. Karin Ensink for the ADHD Compassion Project at Rutgers University using a psychodynamic, family-based, mentalization based treatment for children (MBT-C). Dr. Ensink serves as consultant on the case of a gender non-binary child with ADHD being treated at the clinic. Through this consultation, Dr. Ensink demonstrates the clinical utility of reflective functioning to a training clinician. By pairing the clinician’s conceptualization of the client with questions aimed to encourage reflective functioning she provides a path for the clinician to deepen the work with the child. The consultation highlights the importance in mentalization focused treatment of pinning down the episodic and using the therapeutic process to both join with the client and scaffold mentalization in real time.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2046420
Gurmeet S. Kanwal
ABSTRACT Teenage has become a distinct, much talked about, and very important socio-economic group in American society since mid-twentieth century. While the origins of this categorization are embedded in capitalist market forces, the group dynamics have very widespread consequences, and need to be understood in cultural and psychological terms. This article focuses particularly on the pressures and stresses experienced by teenagers who are immigrant minorities from very different cultural backgrounds. A framework of threatened continuity of being, rather than one of separation-individuation, is proposed to explain the impact of cultural dissonance on these adolescents as they struggle to adapt, fit in and belong. Clinical strategies in approaching psychotherapeutic work with these teenagers are also explored.
{"title":"Teen and Torn: Adolescents Negotiating Cultural Dissonance","authors":"Gurmeet S. Kanwal","doi":"10.1080/15289168.2022.2046420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15289168.2022.2046420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Teenage has become a distinct, much talked about, and very important socio-economic group in American society since mid-twentieth century. While the origins of this categorization are embedded in capitalist market forces, the group dynamics have very widespread consequences, and need to be understood in cultural and psychological terms. This article focuses particularly on the pressures and stresses experienced by teenagers who are immigrant minorities from very different cultural backgrounds. A framework of threatened continuity of being, rather than one of separation-individuation, is proposed to explain the impact of cultural dissonance on these adolescents as they struggle to adapt, fit in and belong. Clinical strategies in approaching psychotherapeutic work with these teenagers are also explored.","PeriodicalId":38107,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy","volume":"22 1","pages":"140 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91162903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2043060
Nicole Daisy-Etienne, Ionas Sapountzis, Kirkland C. Vaughans, Yvette M. Jones
ABSTRACT The Derner Hempstead Child Clinic is a school-based, university-run community clinic that was created to offer mental health services to children and families in an underserviced area of Long Island, NY. The clinic also offers training to doctoral-level students from the Derner School of Psychology. In its few years of operation, the clinic has emerged as a source of support for the disadvantaged community despite the additional challenges created by the pandemic. To better respond to the multiple needs of the community and the training needs of the student therapists, the clinic is implementing a Nested Mentalization frame through an adaptation of the Weaving Thoughts supervision method.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2043059
T. Stephens
ABSTRACT This longitudinal single case-study analysis presents one woman’s (Opal’s) journey to resuming her place as a mother after over twenty years of child welfare involvement. Opal’s narrative account of her life with her large family in an urban center in the Northeast United States spans over fifty years. Her story illuminates moments of security, joy and happiness – emotions and experiences rarely documented as being connected to mothers like her. Her account illustrates the roadblocks and challenges that await Black mothers who are child welfare involved, and the ways in which they triumph over those barriers, and reclaim their place within their families. Opal’s narrative is organized into three phases, her: 1) Defining Years; 2) Activation and First-Time Mothering; and, 3) Generational Impact. Her ability to defy the master narrative regarding Black mothers provides a powerful contrast to the persistent violent tropes that undergird punitive child welfare policies and practices. Her story offers insights into dignified and effective ways of interacting with Black families in need of help.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2043057
E. Molinari, M. Brady
ABSTRACT This paper will consider the challenges adolescents, their families, and their psychoanalysts face when approaching the feminine/masculine theme. Adolescent sexual relationships co-construct and constitute versions of the feminine and the masculine. Such narratives of gender are compromise formations, which include overdetermined normativities and yet are idiographic and embodied. Conformity to cultural expectations leads to comprehensibility, but threatens the unique and the personal. We will consider clinical material from a fourteen-year-old girl who came into therapy because her mother considered her behavior towards her twin brother too aggressive. The family culture brought to the therapy expectations about the behavior of a young girl. What was important in this therapy was a setting with the use of different materials to build artistic objects. The presenting issue of the real relationship between sister and brother brought the male-female theme into the analysis, which was then present in the analytic relationship like a dream function. Putting this intuition into the theoretical frame of post-Bionian field theory, the female function is considered as the desire to be “at one ment” with the other (O) and the masculine function to realize necessary separation and subjective knowledge (K).
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2040085
Miguel M. Terradas, Antoine Asselin, D. Drieu
ABSTRACT According to our clinical experience, children who were neglected or maltreated at a young age show a peculiarity in psychodynamic play psychotherapy: they often play in and with the dark. How can children who often experience traumatic situations in the dark be so keen to sneak into it to play? As far as we know, no author has pointed out this characteristic of maltreated children’s play, and there is very little literature on the general subject. The purpose of this article is fourfold. Firstly, it aims to explore the symbolic value that the dark might have for these children. Secondly, it aims to describe some typical psychological mechanisms of the psychic functioning of traumatized children, which may explain why the dark has become a useful play space for them. We suggest that darkness became a transitional space in which they can ignore the environment to avoid their imagination being hampered by the constraints of physical reality. Thirdly, the article elaborates on the technical characteristics and counter-transference issues related to playing in the dark. Fourthly, it uses several examples to illustrate how playing in the dark unfolds, and how the dark can become a decisive factor in the play of traumatized children.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2050659
N. Sorscher
ABSTRACT Neurodivergent children, adolescents, and adults demonstrate both learning and attention challenges that contribute to academic and social failures. The emotional consequences of these disorders include: lowered self-esteem, pervasive feelings of shame, profound insecurity about academic skills, and a deep sense of vulnerability. In many cases, symptoms of depression and anxiety are direct consequences of these challenges. Thus, many patients with neurocognitive difficulties will consult with psychotherapists for help in alleviating their psychiatric symptoms. It is therefore essential that clinicians are mindful of the various types of learning disorders, understand their impact on the developing psyche, and are able to facilitate insight and awareness of these issues. I will provide an overview of the different types of learning disorders, review the literature on common psychological themes found in the psychotherapy of individuals with these disorders, and then present case histories illustrating both themes in treatment and effective interventions. Such interventions will include psychoeducational, insight-oriented, and relational techniques.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2022.2050664
Lea Sacca, Stéphanie Khoury, Christelle Maroun, M. Khoury, Veronica Maroun, Jason Khoury, Priscilla Bouery
ABSTRACT Despite the tremendous burden of refugees on regional and global health care financial systems, the current tools set into place to deal with the worsening conditions of asylum seekers have failed to address the significant challenges facing the Middle East, which in turn affected the capability of host countries to provide the necessary care for incoming population groups. One of the main health risks refugees in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region suffer from is mental health disorders, mainly posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety. Due to the limited accessibility of mental health services and the shortage of mental health professionals in host communities, refugees end up neglecting their conditions and subsequent consequences, which result in a long-term social, psychological, and economic impact. The following scoping review aims to evaluate PTSD interventions implemented for refugee children in developing nations within the MENA region. The York methodology was used to ensure transparency, enable replication of the search strategy, and increase the reliability of study findings. The results indicate that several strategies such as art therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, digital-based educational games, writing for recovery, group theraplay, and profound stress attunement framework deemed effective in decreasing PTSD symptoms on a short-term basis. However, future interventions should apply more sustainable strategies to help refugee children in the long-term management of the chronic mental illness. Additional research regarding this topic is needed in the MENA region.
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