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Winnicott’s “Capacity to Be Alone” in Normative and Non-Normative Adolescent Development

Roberts, Jennifer H.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1319053358

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2011, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch New England: Clinical Psychology.
This dissertation introduces and discusses Winnicott’s (1958/1974) capacity to be alone construct and how it is engendered in a child by an attuned environmental framework. Literature from the psychoanalytical, developmental, attachment, and trauma fields are utilized to operationalize the capacity to be alone in terms of attachment status, emotional regulation, executive functioning, and impulse control. The goal was to generate an object relational-developmental framework that will be used as a non-pathologizing lens by which to view the internalizing and externalizing behaviors of adolescents in foster care as well as of youth who have not been placed in substitute care. Clinical implications that result from this model are examined, as well as recommendations for future research.
Martha Straus, PhD (Committee Chair)
Theodore Ellenhorn, PhD (Committee Member)
Len Fleischer, EdD (Committee Member)
214 p.
Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Mental Health; Psychotherapy
Foster Care; Object Relations; Adolescent Development; Adolescence (13-17 yrs); Trauma

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  • Roberts, J. H. (2011). Winnicott’s “Capacity to Be Alone” in Normative and Non-Normative Adolescent Development [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1319053358

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Roberts, Jennifer. Winnicott’s “Capacity to Be Alone” in Normative and Non-Normative Adolescent Development. 2011. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1319053358.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Roberts, Jennifer. "Winnicott’s “Capacity to Be Alone” in Normative and Non-Normative Adolescent Development." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1319053358

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