Journal of Clinical Review & Case Reports(JCRC)

Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Publications

• Case Report   
  Contributions and Challenges of Psychodynamic Play Therapy- With Foster Children and Their Many Parents
  Author(s): Dr. Shimrit Prins-Engelsman, Dr. Noga Levine Keini* and Dr. Karin Keydar Cohen
  
  This article describes the important contributions provided by the psychodynamic approach to the psychotherapy and treatment of children in foster care. It was written in consideration of the dearth of literature about foster care of children in Israel. Foster care comprises transient substitute parenting, whose aim is to provide a family experience with benevolent parental figures to foster children whose parents were unable to raise them, and to provide for these children have experienced extensive cumulative trauma during their childhood. Removing a child from their home inevitably adds an additional traumatic experience, and their adjustment to foster care is dependent on their past and particularly, their past history of attachments. Internal models of attachment figures who were experienced as neglectful or abusive, impede the attachment of children to new benevolent attachment .. Read More»
  

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