Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Teaching Effective Supervision of Child and Adolescent Analysis: Enriching the Candidate's Clinical Experience

Teaching Effective Supervision of Child and Adolescent Analysis: Enriching the Candidate's Clinical Experience is intended to help the supervisor of child and adolescent analysis. In presenting the supervisory experiences of their volume contributors, Anita G. Schmukler and Paula G. Atkeson offer a diverse guidebook that assists both the training supervising analysts and their candidates in their respective work with children. Focusing on assessment, working with parents, transference and countertransference, ethical dilemmas, play therapy, and fantasies and dreams, this volume ultimately assists the candidate in making careful assessments to determine optimal treatment. Review Teaching Effective Supervision of Child and Adolescent Analysis is a timely, masterful, and comprehensive contribution to the sparse literature on supervision of child and adolescent treatment. The detailed rich examples from clinical experience will be of value to all who supervise and treat children psychologically. A must for child analysts who wish to become effective supervisors.--Wendy Olesker, PhD, New York Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteDrs. Atkeson and Schmukler have collected papers that not only summarize the available literature on supervision of child and adolescent analysis but provide substantive ideas for conceptualizing the very complex processes involved in such an endeavor. This book offers both the conceptual and the practical, so that both the 'why' and the 'how to' of making supervision a helpful undertaking are closely linked in the reader's mind.--Carla Elliott-Neely, Washington Center for PsychoanalysisThis book examines the work of supervision throughout the various phases of a child and adolescent psychoanalytic treatment, with specific focus on the tasks pertinent to each phase. This specificity, combined with wonderful clinical examples, makes the study essential reading for both seasoned supervisors and for those just starting out. With this study, Schmukler and Atkeson make a contribution that is invaluable in itself, and in expanding and deepening the scholarly literature on this often neglected topic--a topic crucial for its clinical and conceptual implications.--Laurie Levinson, PhDThis outstanding book makes an invaluable contribution to the education of the child analyst; written by a group of skilled and experienced clinicians and supervisors, it covers essential issues in the teaching and learning of child analysis in a highly informative and practical way. A work that can serve as a guide and model for students and teachers, this book is essential reading for anyone engaged in the field of child analysis.--Theodore J. Jacobs, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute About the Author Anita G. Schmukler, DO, is a training and supervising analyst as well as supervisor in child analysis at the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis. She is clinical associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Paula G. Atkeson, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst as well as child supervisor at the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the Baltimore Washington Institute.