Reviews
"With elegance and thoroughness, this work provides novice and veteran clinicians with an integrative working model for assessment and treatment of children who have been maltreated. Respect for the complexities and diversities of developing children is reflected in the presentation of the interplay between trauma, attachment, development, and personal meaning to those involved. The book begins with an easily understood, carefully constructed, and engaging clinical foundation supported by the latest research findings, established theory from different areas of specialization, and the authors' conceptualization based upon a rich blend of their knowledge and experience. They translate what is known about the multidimensional impact of child maltreatment into clear, comprehensive guidelines for family and child assessment and child-friendly, useful clinical strategies and interventions." --Beverly James, LCSW, Private Practice, Kona Hawaii; author of Handbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in Children and Treating Traumatized Children "Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Children by Pearce and Pezzot-Pearce is an invaluable tool for clinicians providing assessment and treatment to maltreated children. The authors carefully lay the groundwork, both theoretically and empirically, for treatment interventions with abused children. Using a developmental psychopathology model, the authors integrate theories of attachment, learning, and attributions and their clinical implications for play therapy, behavioral interventions, and family treatment. The book contains clear goals for treatment, specific recommendations for therapeutic interventions, and step-by-step suggestions for treating abused children and their families. In short, this is a comprehensive, well-researched, highly useful book for the beginning or experienced therapist who works with children. It is simply the best book on treatment I have read in years." --Barbara L. Bonner, PhD, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Hospital of Oklahoma "This book is desperately needed. Maintaining a wonderful balance between theory and practice, it contains an excellent discussion of treatment and assessment strategies that are based on sound theoretical principles and the authors' clinical experience. The book clearly advances our knowledge in the area of treatment for maltreated children and represents a valuable contribution to the literature." --Byron Egeland, PhD, University of Minnesota (he is Professor of Child Development), "In a clinical field with a burgeoning and extensive literature, this very rewarding book provides a comprehensive review of the assessment and psychotherapy of children who have suffered physical or sexual abuse. The authors are experienced in the field and provide detailed clinical examples and recommendations for evaluation and treatment from their own clinical experience and the literature....This is an excellent, comprehensive, well-researched book on psychotherapy with maltreated children which I recommend to all therapists in the field." --American Journal of Psychotherapy "...a solid and practical book regarding psychotherapeutic approaches to maltreatment....It will provide beginning therapists with a much needed starting point, and will enrich the experienced therapist's perspectives in a most challenging area of our work." --The Canadian Child Psychiatry Review "The strength of this work is the authors' skill at integrating diverse orientations, including attachment theory, ego psychology, cognitive-behavioral theory, and family perspectives into a multifaceted approach to this issue....The readers most interested in clinical work with maltreated children and their families, the latter portion of this book is a well-written, extensive exploration of the issues involved in assessing, educating, and treating children and their adult support network....Here the authors provide rich case material that illustrates the complexities of this work at each stage of the process....This detailed volume is an important contribution to clinicans who find themselves trying to cope with the strong feelings and complex demands evoked by children who have been mistreated. As these youngsters continue to fill clinics, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals, this book will become an invaluable resource for those called on to treat them." --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "...a comprehensive, eclectic clinical volume....The range of this volume is extensive....The authors are to be commended for their thorough scholarship....I believe this book is a valuable contribution because it places so much emphasis on the relational aspects of treatment rather than on therapies based on drugs with little or no focus on determining what is emotionally happening to patients....will satisfy the needs of novices who are seeking something solid to organize themselves around, and it will bring certain items to the fore for more experienced practitioners that they may not have thought of." --American Journal of Psychiatry "Well written, stylish, and clear, with regular tables to summarize its difficult content--the sort of book that invites you to read it....It offers a consistent developmental framework in an area where so many practitioners, and therefore the clients they are trying to help, have no sense of why the child is behaving in a particular way....It is set out in a practical 'chronology' that is testimony to the clinical experience of these two authors. They speak from the real world of the therapy room...." --Psychiatric Services "[A] user-friendly manual....Case histories are used to expand upon various techniques discussed, including art therapy and play therapy." --Coalition Commentary "...a clearly written, thoughtful, and sensitive book detailing the complexities of psychotherapy for maltreated children." --Science Books and Films, "With elegance and thoroughness, this work provides novice and veteran clinicians with an integrative working model for assessment and treatment of children who have been maltreated. Respect for the complexities and diversities of developing children is reflected in the presentation of the interplay between trauma, attachment, development, and personal meaning to those involved. The book begins with an easily understood, carefully constructed, and engaging clinical foundation supported by the latest research findings, established theory from different areas of specialization, and the authors' conceptualization based upon a rich blend of their knowledge and experience. They translate what is known about the multidimensional impact of child maltreatment into clear, comprehensive guidelines for family and child assessment and child-friendly, useful clinical strategies and interventions." --Beverly James, LCSW, Private Practice, Kona Hawaii; author ofHandbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in ChildrenandTreating Traumatized Children "Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Childrenby Pearce and Pezzot-Pearce is an invaluable tool for clinicians providing assessment and treatment to maltreated children. The authors carefully lay the groundwork, both theoretically and empirically, for treatment interventions with abused children. Using a developmental psychopathology model, the authors integrate theories of attachment, learning, and attributions and their clinical implications for play therapy, behavioral interventions, and family treatment. The book contains clear goals for treatment, specific recommendations for therapeutic interventions, and step-by-step suggestions for treating abused children and their families. In short, this is a comprehensive, well-researched, highly useful book for the beginning or experienced therapist who works with children. It is simply the best book on treatment I have read in years." --Barbara L. Bonner, PhD, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Hospital of Oklahoma "This book is desperately needed. Maintaining a wonderful balance between theory and practice, it contains an excellent discussion of treatment and assessment strategies that are based on sound theoretical principles and the authors' clinical experience. The book clearly advances our knowledge in the area of treatment for maltreated children and represents a valuable contribution to the literature." --Byron Egeland, PhD, University of Minnesota (he is Professor of Child Development), "In a clinical field with a burgeoning and extensive literature, this very rewarding book provides a comprehensive review of the assessment and psychotherapy of children who have suffered physical or sexual abuse. The authors are experienced in the field and provide detailed clinical examples and recommendations for evaluation and treatment from their own clinical experience and the literature....This is an excellent, comprehensive, well-researched book on psychotherapy with maltreated children which I recommend to all therapists in the field." --American Journal of Psychotherapy "...a solid and practical book regarding psychotherapeutic approaches to maltreatment....It will provide beginning therapists with a much needed starting point, and will enrich the experienced therapist's perspectives in a most challenging area of our work." --The Canadian Child Psychiatry Review "The strength of this work is the authors' skill at integrating diverse orientations, including attachment theory, ego psychology, cognitive-behavioral theory, and family perspectives into a multifaceted approach to this issue....The readers most interested in clinical work with maltreated children and their families, the latter portion of this book is a well-written, extensive exploration of the issues involved in assessing, educating, and treating children and their adult support network....Here the authors provide rich case material that illustrates the complexities of this work at each stage of the process....This detailed volume is an important contribution to clinicians who find themselves trying to cope with the strong feelings and complex demands evoked by children who have been mistreated. As these youngsters continue to fill clinics, treatment centers, and psychiatric hospitals, this book will become an invaluable resource for those called on to treat them." --Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "...a comprehensive, eclectic clinical volume....The range of this volume is extensive....The authors are to be commended for their thorough scholarship....I believe this book is a valuable contribution because it places so much emphasis on the relational aspects of treatment rather than on therapies based on drugs with little or no focus on determining what is emotionally happening to patients....will satisfy the needs of novices who are seeking something solid to organize themselves around, and it will bring certain items to the fore for more experienced practitioners that they may not have thought of." --American Journal of Psychiatry "Well written, stylish, and clear, with regular tables to summarize its difficult content--the sort of book that invites you to read it....It offers a consistent developmental framework in an area where so many practitioners, and therefore the clients they are trying to help, have no sense of why the child is behaving in a particular way....It is set out in a practical 'chronology' that is testimony to the clinical experience of these two authors. They speak from the real world of the therapy room...." --Psychiatric Services "[A] user-friendly manual....Case histories are used to expand upon various techniques discussed, including art therapy and play therapy." --Coalition Commentary "...a clearly written, thoughtful, and sensitive book detailing the complexities of psychotherapy for maltreated children." --Science Books and Films, "With elegance and thoroughness, this work provides novice and veteran clinicians with an integrative working model for assessment and treatment of children who have been maltreated. Respect for the complexities and diversities of developing children is reflected in the presentation of the interplay between trauma, attachment, development, and personal meaning to those involved. The book begins with an easily understood, carefully constructed, and engaging clinical foundation supported by the latest research findings, established theory from different areas of specialization, and the authors' conceptualization based upon a rich blend of their knowledge and experience. They translate what is known about the multidimensional impact of child maltreatment into clear, comprehensive guidelines for family and child assessment and child-friendly, useful clinical strategies and interventions." --Beverly James, LCSW, Private Practice, Kona Hawaii; author of Handbook for Treatment of Attachment-Trauma Problems in Children and Treating Traumatized Children " Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Children by Pearce and Pezzot-Pearce is an invaluable tool for clinicians providing assessment and treatment to maltreated children. The authors carefully lay the groundwork, both theoretically and empirically, for treatment interventions with abused children. Using a developmental psychopathology model, the authors integrate theories of attachment, learning, and attributions and their clinical implications for play therapy, behavioral interventions, and family treatment. The book contains clear goals for treatment, specific recommendations for therapeutic interventions, and step-by-step suggestions for treating abused children and their families. In short, this is a comprehensive, well-researched, highly useful book for the beginning or experienced therapist who works with children. It is simply the best book on treatment I have read in years." --Barbara L. Bonner, PhD, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Hospital of Oklahoma "This book is desperately needed. Maintaining a wonderful balance between theory and practice, it contains an excellent discussion of treatment and assessment strategies that are based on sound theoretical principles and the authors' clinical experience. The book clearly advances our knowledge in the area of treatment for maltreated children and represents a valuable contribution to the literature." --Byron Egeland, PhD, University of Minnesota (he is Professor of Child Development), 'Well written, stylish, and clear, with regular tables to summarize its difficult content the sort of book that invites you to read it....It offers a consistent developmental framework in an area where so many practitioners, and therefore the clients they are trying to help, have no sense of why the child is behaving in a particular way....It is set out in a practical 'chronology' that is testimony to the clinical experience of these two authors. They speak from the real world of the therapy room....' - Psychiatric Services 'With elegance and thoroughness...the authors translate what is known about the multidimensional impact of child maltreatment into clear, comprehensive guidelines for family and child assessment, and child-friendly, useful clinical strategies and interventions.' - Beverly James, LCSW
