This book succeeds brilliantly at illustrating the enormous value of the psychoanalytic parent-toddler group model developed at the Anna Freud Centre and now adopted around the world. The vivid examples enrich our appreciation for the inner life of toddlers and their active efforts to make themselves understood. The authors teach by example, sharing their extraordinary knowledge of this tumultuous but exhilarating age through tactful interventions that expand our repertoire and stimulate our own creativity. - Alicia F. Lieberman, University of California, San Francisco, USA
The coauthors have provided the reader with well-written pieces that are descriptive, wellreferenced, and cover a diversity of issues in the case studies. This book helps practitioners in early childhood learn, or remember, the importance of parent-child relationships and the long history of Freud's emphasis on the importance of paying attention to how young children grow. - Sandra R. Wolkoff, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, NY
Parents and Toddlers in Groups is refreshing, interesting and extremely engaging to read. The case studies are clear and illustrate the authors' careful consideration of context, the parents and toddlers needs and how best to adapt and modify the model to reach them and ensure that despite uncertainty or intrusion (people suddenly appearing in the group, toys damaged) the group space remains protected, welcoming and reflective for its members. - Elizabeth Murphy, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
This book succeeds brilliantly at illustrating the enormous value of the psychoanalytic parent-toddler group model developed at the Anna Freud Centre and now adopted around the world. The vivid examples enrich our appreciation for the inner life of toddlers and their active efforts to make themselves understood. The authors teach by example, sharing their extraordinary knowledge of this tumultuous but exhilarating age through tactful interventions that expand our repertoire and stimulate our own creativity. - Alicia F. Lieberman, University of California, San Francisco, USA
This succinct overview of the psychoanalytic approach applied to working with toddlers and their parents in a group setting succeeds brilliantly...and...is done in such an effortless and lucid manner that it becomes completely accessible to those unfamiliar with this perspective. The sheer gusto for this way of thinking and working is like a wave of energy that surges through the book, capable of carrying anyone interested in this phase of growth all the way through. - Robin Balbernie, YoungMinds Magazine, Issue 112, June-July 2011
Parents and Toddlers in Groups is refreshing, interesting and extremely engaging to read... This book will be a welcome and helpful read for anyone working with parents and toddlers. - Elizabeth Murphy, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, February 2012
