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Psychotherapy of children with conduct disorders using games and stories

The goal of treatment is to help the patient deal with the fundamental problems and conflicts of life. For children with conduct disorders these include awareness and appropriate expression of feelings (especially anger and sadness), self-assertion, ability to delay gratification, anticipation of consequences of injudicious behavioral choices, and ability to generate healthier options when internal or external conflicts arise. These skills are best taught symbolically and allegorically ...

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  • "Conduct disorders are among the most common problems for which children are brought for treatment. These youngsters have a minimal capacity for insight into their problems, and their motivation to work on their difficulties is often very low. The goal of treatment is to help the patient deal with the fundamental problems and conflicts of life. This entails learning a series of psychological skills that include awareness and appropriate expression of feelings (especially anger and sadness), self-assertion, ability to delay gratification, anticipation of consequences of injudicious behavioral choices, and ability to generate healthier options when internal or external conflicts arise. For children who are incapable of, or unreceptive to, the development of conscious insight, these skills are best taught symbollically and allegorically through stories, metaphors, parables, and discussions of third parties. Being transparently honest and judiciously self-disclosing, particularly of experiences that relate to the youth's present struggles (e.g., the consequences of my periodic inability to delay gratification as a child) helps to build the therapeutic relationship, in the context of which the child is able to tolerate the anxiety and pain inherent in experiencing his or her core issue (e.g., abandonment, loss, abuse), of which the therapist speaks openly and directly. Ruth's primary problems were lying and stealing, problems"
  • "The goal of treatment is to help the patient deal with the fundamental problems and conflicts of life. For children with conduct disorders these include awareness and appropriate expression of feelings (especially anger and sadness), self-assertion, ability to delay gratification, anticipation of consequences of injudicious behavioral choices, and ability to generate healthier options when internal or external conflicts arise. These skills are best taught symbolically and allegorically ..."@en
  • "Gardner and an actor demonstrate the use of games, stories and metaphors to develop appropriate psychological skills, including self-awareness, assertiveness, emotional expression, ability to delay gratification and anticipate consequences."@en
  • "Presents a case study and demonstration of psychotherapy with a child having behavioral problems and difficulty in her stepfamily."
  • "Presents a case study and demonstration of psychotherapy with a child having behavioral problems and difficulty in her stepfamily."@en
  • "Psychotherapist Richard A. Gardner demonstrates his approach to working with children who present with conduct disorders, working with a 12-year old girl who refuses to interact with him but through playing a therapeutic board game called "The Talking, Feeling, and Doing Game" shows increased willingness to disclose her feelings. "This DVD features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material."--container."@en
  • "Psychotherapist Richard A. Gardner demonstrates his approach to working with children who present with conduct disorders, working with a 12-year old girl who refuses to interact with him but through playing a therapeutic board game called "The Talking, Feeling, and Doing Game" shows increased willingness to disclose her feelings. "This DVD features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material."--container."

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  • "Psychotherapy of children with conduct disorders using games and stories"
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  • "Psychotherapy of children with conduct disorders using games and stories (American Psychological Association, 1996)"@en

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