Conducting Psychodynamic Therapy with Children and Youth: Some Thoughts for the Modern Clinician

Abstract

Clinicians working with children and adolescents must remain dynamic (“zestful, energetic, open to constant change”) while exploring the psychodynamics inherent within the patient-clinician dyad. Cultural climates and trends are constantly changing, and as communications improve in the digital era, the enormity of information makes it difficult to stay up to date. The author shares some opinions and observations he has learnt in his practice of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy with children and teenagers.