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This chapter focuses on “real-world interventions” with children and adolescents. Children with mind–body problems often require a more complex set of interventions than what can be provided by a single form of psychotherapy. The clinician may be faced with a complicated emotional situation not only for the child but also for family members and by the child immersed in a school environment. We describe the benefits of individual psychotherapy along psychodynamic lines, taking into account unconscious feelings, thoughts, and communications. The child often will require additional interventions with the family, who may unwittingly perpetuate the problems at hand. If the clinician is trained in multiple therapeutic modalities, he or she can adapt the therapy to the patient and family, and not the opposite. Combining interventions, such as relaxation techniques, suggestion, hypnosis, biofeedback, and mindfulness, together with the expression of feelings and interventions with the family, may all be helpful to children and parents dealing with chronic medical conditions, somatoform disturbances, and other complex medical problems.
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Maldonado-Duran, J.M., O’Malley, P., Kazmi, K., Lartigue, T. (2023). Multimodal Psychological Interventions for Children and Families with Mind–Body Problems. In: Maldonado-Duran, J.M., Jimenez-Gomez, A., Saxena, K. (eds) Handbook of Mind/Body Integration in Child and Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18377-5_29
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