Finding a Way to the Child

Margaret Rustin is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and child analyst. She was head of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic 1985 – 2009 and played a major role in the extension of child psychotherapy training across the UK. Since retiring from the NHS, she has a private practice and teaches in many different countries. She has edited and written widely, most recently, jointly with her husband Michael, Reading Klein. Kate Stratton is a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the Adolescent & Young Adult Service at the Tavistock Clinic where she also teaches and supervises. She is a former editor of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy, and co-editor of the Tavistock Clinic Series. Simon Cregeen is a child and adolescent psychotherapist and couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist in independent practice. He teaches and supervises and has published in the Journal of Child Psychotherapy and elsewhere. He is a co-author of Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual (2016). He is a Trustee of Manchester Psychoanalytic Development Trust (mpdt.org.uk).

Introduction Part One: The Scope of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 1. Finding out where and who one is: the special complexity of migration for adolescents (2013) 2. Identity themes in psychotherapy with an adopted mixed race adolescent (1989) 3. Rigidity and staibility in a psychotic young adolescent: some thoughts about obstacles to facing reality in psychotherapy (1997) Part Two: Assessment in Child Psychotherapy 1. A child psychotherapist's approach to assessment: an introductory outline (2000) 2. Finding a way to the child (1982) 3. What follows familiy breakdown: assessing children who have experienced deprivation, trauma, and multiple loss (1993) 4. Assessing children and families: developments in a paradign (1995) Part Three: The Particular Needs of Young People Growing Up in Foster or Adoptive Homes 1. Multiple families in mind (199) 2. Conceptual analysis of critical moments in the life of Victoria Climbié: a response to the Laming Report (2003) 3. Psychoanalytic work with an adopted child with a history of early abuse and neglect (2018) 4. Where is the pain?: body, mind, and family culture (2005) Part Four: Working with Parents 1. Dialogues with parents (1998) 2. Work with parents (1999/2020) 3. Identity fragmentation and recovery in psychoanalytic psychotherapy (1989/2020)