Lion’s Den is a compassionate and inspirational guidebook for clinicians working with hard-to-reach emotionally disturbed children that outlines specific actions to apply to daily situations and behavioral crises. Distilling her work with 600 child clients into clinical vignettes, Cotton explains with humor, honesty and wisdom the why behind the what, showing how to involve families and avoid professional burnout. Her updated preface (2004) points the way toward adapting her methods for briefer stays and less restrictive environments.

Tables, Figures, and Exhibits

 

Foreword

        Robert Coles, M.D.

 

Preface

 

Updated Preface

 

The Author

 

Introduction: What Is Therapeutic Management?

 

 

Part One:

 

Designing the Framework of Treatment

 

1. The Environmental Context of Therapeutic Management:

    Culture, Space, People, and Time

 

2. The Interpersonal Context of Therapeutic

    Management: Empathy

 

3. The Interpersonal Context of Therapeutic Management:

    Communication

 

4. The Interpersonal Context of Therapeutic Management:

    Discipline

 

 

Part Two:

 

Practical Ways of Responding to Trouble

 

5. Therapeutic Discipline: Modifying the Discipline Process

 

6. Working with the Overwhelmed Child: Rationale and

    Techniques

 

7. Postcrisis Therapeutic Management: Picking Up the

    Pieces

 

    Epilogues: Taming the Inner Lions

  

 Appendix

1.  The People: Patients
2.  The People: Staff

 

    References

 

    Index

Introduction

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