Early encounters with children and adolescents [electronic resource] : beginning psychodynamic therapists' first cases / edited by Steven Tuber.

Eight of these ten chapters have been previously published in a modified version by Routledge in the December 2013 edition of the Journal of infant, child and adolescent psychotherapy (JICAP, volume 12).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. An introduction / Steven Tuber -- 2. The very first patient : becoming real together / Kira Boesch -- 3. How do I work with parent and child, especially if i am not yet a parent? / Mougeh Yasai -- 4. How do I work long-term with a child when I only have a year to work with him? : the conflicts inherent in time-limited therapy while in clinical training / Elizabeth Freidin Baumann -- 5. Finding one's self : developing a therapeutic identity as a beginning therapist doing long-term work / Monique S. Bowen -- 6. Modeling a therapeutic identity for a beginning therapist in supervision / Jenny Kahn Kaufmann -- 7. Building safety and containment : responding to challenges to the frame with both parent and child / Jane Caflisch -- 8. "Following the affect" : how my first child patient helped teach me to listen and see / Jason Royal -- 9. "Psychic twins" : a psycho-dynamically informed treatment of a selectively mute adolescent and her mother / Zoe Berko -- 10. Passing the baton from one beginning therapist to the next : an adolescent treated by two successive interns / Lauren DeMille.