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Published UK, 2008
This book is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young children's communications and behaviour and the dynamics of family relationships within the consulting room in a lively, accessible style. The book covers common themes in work with young children such as disruptive, angry behaviour, separation and sleep difficulties, and problems in the parent/couple relationship.

CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS
Brief Work with Parents of Infants
Salma Fraiberg's Contribution to Understanding the Past in the Present
Therapeutic Interventions with Parents and Their Young Children
Tantrums and Behaviour Problems in Two Under-Fives Boys
The Concept of a United Couple in Families with Unstable Relationships
Separation Anxiety in the Early Years
Life and Death in the Early Years

Louise Emanuel is a consultant child psychotherapist in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic in the UK.
Paperback. 294 pages