Heineman, a psychotherapist, discusses the relational treatment of trauma in children and adolescents in foster care. She describes A Home Within, an organization created to meet the emotional
needs of foster children; the dynamics of attachment and trauma, including the importance of early relationships, the problem of language in treating children who have suffered abuse, and how
an abusive history is re-enacted in therapy; unconscious contributions to problems in foster and adoptive placements, identity formation in foster care, and transference and countertransference
in the therapeutic relationship; the treatment of an infant, pediatric bipolar disorder, grief, and parental death; and the elements of relationship-based therapy. Some chapters have been
previously published elsewhere. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
