Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children—an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As a whole, the book will provide the advanced reader with insight and guidance on working with parents and their children in the clinical setting.

• Part 1 Parent-focused TreatmentChapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on ChaptersChapter 3 Managing Childhood BehaviorChapter 4 Parental Level of AwarenessPart 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of TraumaChapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11Part 8 Common Treatment SituationsChapter 9 The Initial MeetingsChapter 10 The Vulnerable ChildChapter 11 The Vulnerable ParentChapter 12 Working with Easting DisordersChapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition ModelChapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing ParentsPart 15 Developing Refelctive FunctionsChapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting FactorChapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect RegulationChapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills

Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children—an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As a whole, the book will provide the advanced reader with insight and guidance on working with parents and their children in the clinical setting.

• Part 1 Parent-focused TreatmentChapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on ChaptersChapter 3 Managing Childhood BehaviorChapter 4 Parental Level of AwarenessPart 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of TraumaChapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11Part 8 Common Treatment SituationsChapter 9 The Initial MeetingsChapter 10 The Vulnerable ChildChapter 11 The Vulnerable ParentChapter 12 Working with Easting DisordersChapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition ModelChapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing ParentsPart 15 Developing Refelctive FunctionsChapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting FactorChapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect RegulationChapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills

Carol Wachs, Psy.D. co-authored Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Linda Jacobs. Dr. Wachs has a private practice in New York City. She has worked in the public mental health sector and also works in collaboration with physicians in New York.Linda Jacobs, Ph.D. is associate professor, Department of Human Development and Leadership, Long Island University. Dr. Jacobs is a psychoanalyst and professor of graduate studies in school psychology. She is the co-author of the book Parent Therapy: a Relational Alternative to Working with Children with Carol Wachs (Aronson, 2002) and is in private practice in New York City.

The overall strength of this text lays in its emphasis on the necessary inclusion of parents in the mental health work with children—an important and timely contribution to the field of child therapy....this text delivers diverse perspectives on the inclusion of parents in child therapy....the overall diversity of approaches will only serve to strengthen the reader's skills when working with parents and children in therapy. As a whole, the book will provide the advanced reader with insight and guidance on working with parents and their children in the clinical setting.

• Part 1 Parent-focused TreatmentChapter 2 Introduction and Commentary on ChaptersChapter 3 Managing Childhood BehaviorChapter 4 Parental Level of AwarenessPart 5 Trauma: Precursors and Aftermath Chapter 6 Projective Identification and the Transgenerational Transmission of TraumaChapter 7 Preschoolers' Traumatic Stress Post-9/11Part 8 Common Treatment SituationsChapter 9 The Initial MeetingsChapter 10 The Vulnerable ChildChapter 11 The Vulnerable ParentChapter 12 Working with Easting DisordersChapter 13 The Parent-Child Mutual Recognition ModelChapter 14 Working with Divorced and Divorcing ParentsPart 15 Developing Refelctive FunctionsChapter 16 Reflective Functioning As A Change Promoting FactorChapter 17 Representation, Symbolization and Affect RegulationChapter 18 Integrating School Consultation and Parenting Skills