Review

Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children

By Alicia F Lieberman and Patricia Van Horn (The Guilford Press, ISBN 9781609182403, 17.45)

Two American clinicians provide advice on how child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) can begin to address problems in young children who have been damaged by the lack of healthy, early attachment relationships.

CPP seeks to 'retrieve and create gratifying experiences of relationship that become engraved as new memories to modulate fear and promote trust in the child's and the parents' sense of each other and of themselves'.

Using a diverse range of case studies, the authors highlight how the effects of stress and trauma in early attachment can be addressed.

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