Bridges of Compassion: Insights and Interventions in Developmental Disabilities Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Taking the Bite Out of Teasing: Covert Reinforcement Helps a Girl Cope with Teasing	1
2	You've Got the Power: Michael Helps Create His Own Anger Management Program	9
3	When Attention is an Emergency: Psychosocial Development and Attentional Needs	21
4	A Legend in his Lifetime: A Family Systems Tale of the Forest and the Trees	31
5	Emerging from the Autistic Shell: Psychodynamic Understanding and Discrete Trial Learning Help an Autistic Boy Develop His First Friendships	43
6	Mourning what is Gone: A Psychodynamic Approach with an Autistic Patient	53
7	Mirrored: From Aggression to a More Positive Sense of Self	63
8	The Order of the Fist and the Hand: Imagery-Based Character Education as a Replacement for Gang Identification	73
9	The Order of the Fist and the Hand - Part II: Social Issues, Ritual, and Imagery in Group Process	83
10	Dramatic Overtures: Working with the Histrionic Personality	93
11	Aggression and Projective Identification: Working with Splitting and Projective Identification	105
12	Truth or Consequences: A Values-Based Behavioral Approach	119
13	When Foul is Fair: Reinterpreting Negative Behaviors and Engaging the Child's Curiosity and Playfulness	131
14	Your Space Bubble and Mine: Working with Boundaries and Self - Other Differentiation	141
15	The Trials of Toilet Training: Behavioral, Developmental, and Practical Considerations	149
16	An Acceptance of Reality: Jungian Reflections in Psychotherapy with a Young Psychotic Man	159
17	Nobody can Tell me what to do: Working with the Rosenberg IBP Character Style Model	169
18	Perpetration: The Pervasive Dilemma of Sexual Abuse	181
19	Compassion's Shadow: The Dangers of Countertransference	191
	Appendices	203
	Glossary	213
	References	223
	Index	231