Children in Family Contexts (eBook)

Lee Combrinck-Graham, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the public sector. Her training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic under Salvador Minuchin's direction led her always to wonder, "How can you work with children without their families?" She is still wondering more than 30 years after finishing her training, but she has learned that many do not see it this way; that question became the basis for this book. Dr. Combrinck-Graham lives and works in Fairfield County, Connecticut, a county with some of the greatest wealth in the United States, yet her work as a psychiatric consultant to family service agencies takes her into inner-city homes and schools. This work, though often executed with a prescription pad, affirms daily the importance of social context in understanding and treating the most confounding of child and adolescent emotional and behavioral problems.

I. Child Mental Health Fundamentals in Family Context1. The Child in Family Therapy: Guidelines for Active Engagement across the Age Span, Tanya B. White and Richard Chasin2. Development in Family Contexts, Geri Fox3. Guidelines for a Family Assessment Protocol, Edith Catlin Lawrence4. Family Therapy in an Age of Biological Psychiatry: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations, Allan M. Josephson5. The Biology of Family Culture, Douglas A. KramerII. Different Family Structures6. Two-Parent Families, or How To Love a Two-Headed Monster, Douglas A. Kramer7. Successful African American Single-Parent Families, Marion Lindblad-Goldberg8. Remarried Systems, Mary F. Whiteside9. Children in Foster Families, Kim Sumner-MayerIII. Children in Families Facing Specific Challenges10. Children with Chronic Illness and Physical Disabilities, Judith A. Libow11. Families with Children with Disrupted Attachments, Lee Combrinck-Graham and Susan B. McKenna12. Children of Parents with Mental Illness, Alan Cooklin13. The Invisible Illness: Children in Alcoholic Families, Stuart A. Copans14. Families Coping with the Death of a Parent: The Therapist's Role, Joan C. BarthIV. Families and Larger Systems15. The Family's Own System: The Symbolic Context of Health, David V. Keith16. Partners for Success: A Collaborative Project in School-Based Mental Health Practice and Training, Phebe Sessions and Verba Fanolis17. Children in Placement: A Place for Family Therapy, Ann Itzkowitz18. The Family and the Legal System: The Search for an Intelligent Integration, G. Pirooz SholevarV. Larger Issues Affecting Children in Families19. A Model for Disrupting Cycles of Violence in Families with Young Children, John Brendler20. Of Two Worlds: Working with Children in Immigrant Families, Veronica Barenstein and Ema Genijovich21. The Many Cultures of Child Protection, Begum Maitra