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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children

Current Status and Guidelines for Future Research

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

Part of the book series: Advances in Clinical Child Psychology ((ACCP,volume 12))

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In 1957, Levitt concluded from a review of research that “there is no evidence to indicate that child psychotherapy is effective” (Eysenck, 1965; Levitt, 1957a). In 1988, Tuma, reviewing a set of studies published from 1953 to 1986, concluded that “two-thirds of the studies [reviewed] find treatment effects showing that treated children achieve positive changes over control children” (Tuma, 1988). The first task of this chapter will be to elucidate these different conclusions and to suggest that both are based on the review of incomplete data. As Tuma (1988) indicated, there are too few well-described and executed studies to group them in a manner that allows generalization.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and the Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Christoph M. Heinicke

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, Georgia, USA

    Benjamin B. Lahey

  2. Department of Psychology, Yale University, 06520, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Alan E. Kazdin

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Heinicke, C.M. (1989). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9832-5_1

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