Contemporary Clinical Practice The Holding Environment Under Assault /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruderman, Ellen. (Editor), Tosone, Carol. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Essential Clinical Social Work Series
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Social work.; Psychology, clinical.; Applied psychology.; Social Sciences.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Social Policy.; Clinical Psychology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4124-3

Ongoing wars, a sinking economy, growing inequitiesmore than ever, the outside world leaves a large footprint on patients psyches. Not surprisingly, therapists are experiencing increased tension between sociopolitical realities, the inner world of the treatment hour, and their own anxieties, train...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The World Outside and its Impact on the Treatment Process
• Shared Trauma and Self-Disclosure in the Therapeutic Process
• The Erosion of the Socio-Political Holding Environment and Potential Space for Creative Repair in Treatment
• Grief and Loss in an Age of Global Trauma: Protest and Despair vs. Attachment and Reorganization
• Integrating the Internal and External Worlds of Clinical Social Work
• What Happens to Confidentiality When the Government Enters the Treatment Room via the Patriot Act, HIPPA, and Managed Care?
• The Influence of Outside Forces on Social Work Education
• Real Experiences Revisited: The Significance of Attachment, Separation, and Loss in Clinical Social Work Treatment
• Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
• Considerations for Psychoanalytic Treatment in a Time of War.