Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting

Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting addresses the reasons for focusing on understanding a child’s emotional world as a way of becoming a more effective parent. The book also addresses techniques for assisting parents to accomplish this understanding.

Mary Davis, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has been involved with the Vulnerable Child Study Group since 1995, and became Co-Chair of the Study Group in 2009. M. Hossein Etezady, MD, is a child psychoanalyst in private practice in Paoli, Pennsylvania. He has worked in multiple settings, including in-patient, outpatient, and consultation services in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as in psychiatry. For over thirty years he has served as the moderator and coordinator, has been a contributor, and is currently serving as the senior co-chair of the Vulnerable Child Discussion Group of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Association for Child Psychoanalysis.

Preface Introduction: The Seeds of an IdeaChapter 1: Reflective Parenting and the Origins of the Center for Reflective Parenting Chapter 2: Why and How CRP BeganChapter 3: CRP Direct Services and Training ProgramsChapter 4: Working with Different Clinical PopulationsChapter 5: Neurobiology of ParentingChapter 6: Other Programs Similar to CRPChapter 7: Finding the Good GrandmotherBibliographyIndexAuthors and Editors