Face to Face with Children

Joel Kanter, MSW, LCSW has been a practicing social worker since completing his graduate education at Smith College School for Social Work in 1974. A graduate of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry, he is currently a Senior Clinician with Fairfax County (Virginia) Mental Health Services and is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has taught, lectured and written extensively on many topics involving the community treatment of mentally ill clients, including case management, family consultation and day treatment. His publications in these areas include several books and over twenty chapters and articles.

Preface -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Clare Winnicott: her life and legacy -- Oxfordshire -- The problem of homeless children -- Children who cannot play -- Introduction to Deprivation and Delinquency -- Child care in Oxfordshire: An interview with Alan Cohen -- Working with Children -- Casework techniques in the child care services -- Face to face with children -- Communicating with children—I -- Communicating with children—II -- Social Work -- The “rescue motive” in social work -- The development of insight -- Development towards self-awareness -- On D. W. Winnicott and Psychoanalysis -- D.W.W.: A reflection -- D. W. Winnicott: his life and work -- Early observations on object relations theory -- A personal tribute: Dr Lois Munro -- Fear of breakdown: a clinical example -- Published Works of Clare Winnicott