title: Psychotherapy of the child with true brain damage.
abstract: Psychotherapy of the child with true brain damage presents special problems and requires special approaches. Those who are cognitively primitive--at the sensorimotor or preoperational stage of development--require a crisis approach; those at the concrete or formal operational stage can be treated with a modified insight-oriented approach. Development of a therapeutic alliance, establishment of workable defense mechanisms, identification and clarification of unalterable cognitive defects and issues of termination unique to this special population are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001720:Birth Injuries / Q000628:therapy; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment