The Clinical Interview of the Child

by Stanley I. Greenspan

The first edition was published by McGraw-Hill in 1981. Greenspan lays the foundation for conducting the spontaneous, unstructured interview with the child, discussing such strategies as how to quietly allow the child's normative patterns to emerge, how to create a comfortable environment that will encourage expression, and how to systematically observe multiple dimensions of functioning in brief, often sporadic behaviors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Genres: Psychology

245 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1991

About the author

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Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 – April 27, 2010)[1] was an American child psychiatrist and clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. He was best known for developing the floortime approach for attempting to treat children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.[2]

He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School,[2] Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.[3]

Reviews

[Reading · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good tips in here about how to observe children and also to deal with parents, but overall the book is extremely dated. Greenspan is a pure Freudian, often to a fault. We've come a long way since the decade this was published...