Contemporary Child Psychotherapy

Roz Read is the Programme Director of the Integrative Child Psychotherapy MA training at The Institute for Arts in Therapy & Education (IATE) validated by UEL where she teaches and designs the curriculum. With a background working in the arts, for over 30 years Roz has worked extensively with children and teenagers in multi-cultural inner-city community projects, schools and multi-disciplinary teams. Roz trained at IATE, and is a UKCP-registered integrative child psychotherapist, a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Certified Practitioner and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. She has a PG Diploma in psychoanalytic observational studies from the Tavistock Centre. Roz has worked extensively with adopted children and their families, initially with Family Futures and then for the past ten years she has been part of the Child & Family team at PAC-UK. Alongside Graham Music, she has also been co-convenor of the Tavistock Centre neuroscience and attachment workshop. Dr Jeanne Magagna aims to help people observe the deeper aspects of infants’ personalities in order that infants can be better understood and have more rights to good parenting. She has edited or co-edited: Intimate Transformations, The Silent Child, Creativity and Psychotic State, Psychotherapy with Families, Universals of Psychoanalysis, and Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child, all of which show how careful observation and empathic understanding of infants and children, and collaboration with and support for parents, can ensure babies’ rights to good parental care. Previously a Head Start teacher, university teacher, and special educator, she was then head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and was a consultant psychotherapist in Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in London. Jeanne is a child and adolescent psychotherapist (PhD level), family psychotherapist, and adult psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Previously coordinator of training, she currently teaches at the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock model trainings in Florence and Venice, Italy. She is in private practice in London as a child, adult and family therapist, as well as consulting, publishing, and teaching worldwide.

CONTENTS



Acknowledgements

About the editors and contributors

Foreword by Dan Hughes

Introduction by Roz Read



Chapter 1

Addicted to action, fear of being

Graham Music



Chapter 2

Experiences of being held: creating a space to think and play within a family

Neela Basu



Chapter 3

The effects of chronic trauma and neglect

Karlien Smith-Claassens



Chapter 4

Porges meets Winnicott

Irene Alberione



Chapter 5

Autism and sensory sensitivity

Jessica Olive



Chapter 6

“Finding Dory”: a story of an eight year old’s journey from loss to hope and strength

Celine Allder



Chapter 7

Making sense of the pieces

Adina Belloli



Chapter 8

Space rockets and mobile homes: reaching the place of hope by traversing the landscape of trauma and loss

Sarah Marx



Chapter 9

All in bits: trauma, fragmentation, and the journey of piecing back together

Megan Holland



Chapter 10

Safety, trust, and maternal deprivation

Maria Furlong



Chapter 11

Working in schools: parents and the system around the child

Liz Murray-Bligh



Chapter 12

Building a therapeutic service in schools: the role of an integrative child psychotherapist

Jane Brinson



Chapter 13

Empathising with defences through the use of arts and metaphor

Clair Lewoski



Chapter 14

Finding and nurturing the gold: an integrative approach to working with an adopted adolescent and her parent

Roz Read



Chapter 15

Developing a “cradle of concern” using transference and countertransference in therapy and supervision

Jeanne Magagna