Chapter 1 Parent Work—Introduction and History Chapter 2 Our Assumption When We Work with Parents Chapter 3 Evaluation Chapter 4 Recommendation, Setting the Frame, and Working Conditions Chapter 5 The Beginning Phase of Treatment Chapter 6 The Middle Phase of Treatment Chapter 7 The Pretermination Phase of Treatment Chapter 8 The Termination Phase of Treatment Chapter 9 Posttermination Chapter 10 The Application of Our Model of Parent Work to Individual Treatment of Adults Chapter 11 Summary and Further Questions
Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick are child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysts on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. They have been working with children and families for 35 years and joined other colleagues to found a non-profit psychoanalytic school, Allen Creek Preschool, in Ann Arbor. Both Jack and Kerry Novick have written extensively. Their first book, Fearful Symmetry: The Development and Treatment of Sadomasochism, appeared in 1996.
A comprehensive, reader friendly and exceptionally informative
guide for properly identifying and contributing to a healthy
parent-child relationship for the potential and long-lasting
benefit of the child in a therapeutic pursuit. Supplying an
expansively illustrative content of examples, studies, in-depth
detailing, Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work covers diverse
but common situations. Vitally important reading for counselors and
psychotherapists working with families in clinical settings,
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work is also very highly
recommended for the struggling parents of struggling children and
teens for its invaluable and accessible contribution of helpful
insights and general content.
*The Bookwatch*
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a
book on a subject that is almost never written about in
psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while
it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional
way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head.
For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and
consider its message. This book has an interesting mix of practical
advice and theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all
levels of experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with
the families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long
overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on
years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians..
*Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association*
For far too long parents have been denied their rightful place as
partners in therapeutic work on behalf of their children. The
Novicks advocate unequivocally for their inclusion when working
with children of every age and in every phase of development. There
is much to be learned from their model and the many clinical
illustrations they provide in this invaluable contribution to a
neglected area of practice.
*Denia Barrett, Editor, Child Analysis: Clinical, Theoretical, and
Applied*
Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work by Kerry and Jack Novick is
an extraordinarily important contribution. Their work effectively
counters the decades-old resistance to caring work with parents by
child and adolescent psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. Their
work underscores the inevitable ongoing interaction between parent
functioning and child development.
*Leon Hoffman M.D.*
The book is a highly practical treatise on techniques to involve
parents meaningfully in their child's therapy.
*Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health
Professions, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Fall 2007)*
In Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work, psychoanalysts Jack and
Kerry Kelly Novick offer a theoretically rigorous yet highly
practical and intuitively appealing framework for involving parents
meaningfully in their children's therapy. One of this volume's many
strengths lies in its use of numerous salient and well-crafted
clinical illustrations derived from the authors' extensive clinical
and supervisory experience. It also offers further elaboration and
new applications of the Novicks' earlier research on the
"two-systems" model. Indeed, because the work is so well written,
one nearly loses sight of the fact that it represents a bold new
vision of the role of parents in the psychoanalytic treatment of
child and adolescent patients.
*Jerrold R. Brandell, Ph.D., Wayne State University School of
Social Work; author of Psychodynamic Social Work*
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work is a rare book. It is a
book on a subject that is almost never written about in
psychoanalysis. This is also a rare book for another reason: while
it makes no extravagant claims, it quietly turns the traditional
way of thinking about parent work in child analysis on its head.
For this reason especially, all child analysts should read it and
consider its message.
This book has an interesting mix of practical advice and
theoretical ideas. It is useful for clinicians at all levels of
experience. A new and thoughtful look at how we work with the
families of the children we treat is most refreshing and long
overdue. This view is especially relevant since it is based on
years of clinical practice by two excellent clinicians.
*Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association*
This book represents a turning point in our child psychiatry
practice which legitimizes a shift that many of us have adopted
clinically several years ago. It should be read, discussed and
improved upon by all child and adolescent practictioners.
*Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry*
The Novicks have offered us a significant volume....This book is an
important addition to the literature and can be a resource for
child therapists at all levels of experience.
*Psychologist - Psychoanalyst, Fall 2008*
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