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Reconnecting Past, Present and Future Lives: Therapy with a Young Person who Experienced Severe Childhood Privation
Author(s) -
Meech Carole,
Wood Andrew
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2000.tb00423.x
Subject(s) - privation , psychology , early childhood , developmental psychology , childhood abuse , child abuse , psychiatry , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , sleep deprivation , cognition , medical emergency
This case study describes therapy over a three year period with a young adopted person who presented as highly suicidal, with a childhood background characterised by severe privation and abuse. The paper describes the use of a visual Life line, designed to assist the young person in reconnecting and honouring different parts of her life. A flexible and client centred therapeutic approach is also described.