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This chapter will review traditional psychotherapeutic procedures for children who manifest emotional problems. These approaches include psychoanalytic, psychoanalytically-oriented, relationship, structured, and client-centered therapies. The development of individual therapy with children will be traced from the work of early psychoanalysts, outlining the philosophical theories of psychotherapy and focusing on differences and commonalities of differing viewpoints. The most accepted technical considerations will then be developed in order to illustrate major trends in present psychotherapeutic practice. The present status of individual therapy with children will then be appraised through an analysis of research.
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Tuma, J.M., Sobotka, K.R. (1983). Traditional Therapies with Children. In: Ollendick, T.H., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Child Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7136-0_15
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