Main description:

This book brings together therapists to talk about their own experiences, and how these can help work with children and adolescents.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Not a Blank Slate: The Role of Our Own History in Our Therapeutic Work 2. Stepping into the Unknown: Reflections on Transitions 3. Shame, Guilt, Secrets and Lies: How Differentness Within and Outside the Family Shapes our Sense of Self 4. Feeling Dislocated: Some Personal and Clinical Reflections on the Experiences of Relocated Families 5. Mother and Other Tongues: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections 6. The Biafran War: A Transgenerational Legacy 7.Sibling Death: Mourning in Childhood and Beyond 8. Separation and Loss in Adolescence: The Impact of the Iranian Revolution 9. Holding on Tightly, Learning to Let Go: Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections 10. Masculinity and the Male Therapist: The Internal and External Struggles 11. Suspended Animation: A Traumatic Family History Without a Context 12. My Story, Our Story: Co-Parenting Two Adopted Boys 13. One of Many: The Impact of Growing Up in a Large Family 14. The Search for Belonging: An Unfolding Story 15. The Meaning of Home: The Loss of the 'Motherland' and How This Shapes the Formation of Identity 16. Parenting a Child Through a Life-Threatening Illness: Then and Now Epilogue