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Which Children Need Individual Psychotherapy? | How Does a Child’s Treatment Begin? | Where Do Parents Fit Into Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy? | Therapist’s Persona | Atmosphere of the Therapy Sessions | Clinician’s Reading of the Child | Psychotherapeutic Response | Ending Treatment | Future Directions | References

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Individual psychotherapy is essential for every child and adolescent psychiatrist to know and understand. Its associated techniques are also crucial to supervision, conferences, meetings with educators, community gatherings, and policy-setting agendas. One hundred years’ worth of clinical case reports in the professional literature attest to the usefulness of child psychotherapy.

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