Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment

Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy: Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment by Anita G. Schmukler, Paula G. Atkeson, Helene Keable, and E. Kirsten Dahl provides a detailed study of ethical dilemmas of the child therapist and the child analyst, whose work with children and their parents presents unique and perplexing problems. The book examines both the unconscious motives for ethical lapses and addresses ways in which such behavior may be prevented. It addresses working with parents, while maintaining privacy for the child, pitfalls for the child therapist and analyst, and ways in which the process of supervision, a cornerstone of clinical training, may lead to departure from ethical principles. Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy addresses the benefits and risks of presenting and writing about clinical cases, examining the field of working as consultant in custody cases and the role of ethical practice from a historical perspective. Pivotal is the role of the unconscious processes of transference and countertransference, processes that are acknowledged but often not fully comprehended. Contributions on ethics and forensic work by Moisy Shopper, MD, and contributions on ethical writing about psychodynamic work by Denia G. Barrett, MSW.

Anita G. Schmukler, DO, is training and supervising analyst and supervisor in child analysis at the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis. An active clinician for both adults and children and an esteemed lecturer, Schmukler is on the faculties of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education associated with New York University, the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Cincinnati Institute of Psychoanalysis. She is also clinical associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Schmukler has published, widely and is editor of Saying Goodbye: A Casebook on Termination in Child Analysis and Therapy. Paul G Atkeson,PhD, is training and supervising analyst and child supervisor in the Baltimore -Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the Baltimore Washington Institute and she taught at the Clinical Social Work Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr. Atkeson has consulted in several area schools and participated in the founding of the Jenny Waelder Hall Center for Children. Helene Keable, MD, is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine training and supervising analyst and supervisor in child psychoanalysis; and a faculty member at TheNew York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York. She maintains a private practice in child,adolescent, and adult psychiatry and psychoanalysis in New York. E.Kirsten Dahl, PhD, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst in New Haven, Connecticut. She is raining an supervising analyst at the Western Newleand and Institute for Psychoanalysis and the chair of their Child Analytic Training Program.