Reflective Interpersonal Therapy for Children and Parents: Mind That Child! A New Way of Helping Parents and Children with Extreme Conduct Disorder

Disruptive and aggressive behaviour in children causes significant distress to everyone involved. Tradition interventions tend to focus on changing the disruptive behaviour itself, but research shows that it is important to also focus on the underlying anxiety, anger and vulnerability that may have contributed to the child’s conduct. In this innovative book, Hermione Roff introduces Reflective Interpersonal Therapy for Children and Parents (RICAP), a new intervention that looks at the processes underpinning disruptive and aggressive behaviour problems. RICAP was developed specifically to meet the needs of children and their families, and offers a new way to think about and tackle conduct disorders. The intervention explores the relationship between anxiety and anger, the dynamics of threat and fear, and the behavioural interactions within a prime relationship. Taking a practitioner-oriented approach, Roff introduces the theory underpinning RICAP, the evidence base for the approach and how it can be put to work in clinical practice.

Content:
Chapter 1 RICAP: A Description of the Intervention (pages 5–21):
Chapter 2 RICAP and Aggression: Sometimes it Helps to be Bad (pages 23–39):
Chapter 3 RICAP and Reflection: Are These Children Mindless? (pages 41–68):
Chapter 4 RICAP and Attachment: Fighting to Feel Safe (pages 69–94):
Chapter 5 RICAP and Avoidance: A Useful Defence or a Habitual Ploy? (pages 95–118):
Chapter 6 RICAP and Emotions: Why Does Everything have to be Reduced to Anger? (pages 119–143):
Chapter 7 RICAP and Memory: What I Remember Tells Me Who I Am (pages 145–164):
Chapter 8 RICAP and Problem Solving: Do Solutions Matter? (pages 165–196):
Chapter 9 RICAP and Metaphor: The Use and Usefulness of Metaphor (pages 197–217):
Chapter 10 Marc: A Case Study (pages 219–280):