psychosocial treatment and prevention

According to Leon Cytryn and Donald Mcknew, in “Psychosocial Treatment” and “Prevention” in “Growing Up Sad” in the United States, 1998, page 119-129, and page 129-144, psychosocial treatment is a way to help children to alleviate their grief. In this article, the writers showed us four ways of psychosocial treatment, which are “holding situation, mutative interpretation, interpersonal psychotherapy and behavior modification (positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement)” (Cytryn and Mcknew, 1998, page 120-121). The authors discussed that except those four psychosocial treatment, and we also need to draw more attention on public, the first step we need to solve the problem, which is to educate the public in order to let those depressed children have the same rights and privates as those non depressed children. Another way to help those gloomy children, which is to find a consoler to the children and help them to get out of the miserable situation, the authors explained. Cytryn and Mcknew resulted that parents are responsible to chose the best method to help their children to get out of the dismal situation.

Critique:

After i read this book, i feel that it is easy to read and understand, because the organization and explanation in this book are very well organized and clear.

The author divided one chapter into several sections by using subtitle in big letters, such as, goals and types of psychotherapy, parent counseling, and educate the public. After i read those subtitles, i can easily to predict and figure out what the authors are going to say and what kind of information will be included in that section. The other advantage by reading the subtitles, which is to help me to skip those sections that are not related to my topic as soon as possible, I don't need to waste my time to read those unrelated section.

Besides, the writers used good explanation to help us to understand the context. For example, in this article, there are four ways of psychosocial treatment, such as, holding situation, mutative interpretation and behavior modification. After those terms, the author always give a very clear explanation and several examples to explain those terms. The other reason why the author gave explanation to those terms, because this book is not for those experts to read, it is for those parents who want to help their children out of the miserable situation. If the authors didn't explain those terms, how those parents understand and how can they those the best way to help their children.

In a word, I love the organization and explanation, because the organization and explanation helped me to understand a lot and learned a lot.