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Pages 52-68
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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When working with a child, the therapist must deal–separately or jointly–with all the parental figures present in the attributions, drivers, and injunctions the child uses in creating and enacting stories and that are an integral part of his or her life. Consequently, the child therapist witnesses the workings of entire family groups and sometimes even becomes their indirect therapist (in the sense of “transformational element” and “therapeia” as attention, caring, and healing). This role is extremely delicate, and although it must not be intrusive or invade the precious intimacy of the patient/therapist relationship, it should nevertheless favor the evolution and potential reorganization of the family as a whole.

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Dolores Munari Poda

Dolores Munari Poda is a psychotherapist and a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst in private practice in Torino and Milan, Italy. She works with children and parents and also teaches transactional analysis child therapy in Milan (Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia), Torino (Istituto Torinese di Analisi Transazionale), and Padova (Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicologia Clinica dell Università di Padova).