Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach, by Leon Hoffman, Timothy Rice, and Tracy Prout,  Taylor and Francis Group, New York, 2016,  236 pp.

There is growing evidence that childhood and adolescence are critical times for development of the emotion regulatory abilities needed to adaptively balance affective impulses and the deleterious health behaviors they can promote. Emotional regulation failures are a hallmark of many types of child psychopathology. The Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach offers an innovative, short-term psychotherapeutic intervention for children who suffer from irritability, oppositional defiance, and disruptiveness—especially children who have Oppositional Defiant Behavior Disorder (ODD), irritable subtype. This is a remarkable book that provides unique integrative and comprehensive understanding about externalizing behaviors in children. The writer has assembled an incredible array of data that spans virtually the length and breadth of traditional and modern science, including psychodynamic principles and developmental psychoanalysis and developmental neuroscience of children with disruptive behaviors. This book emphasized that emotional and motivational aspects in children with externalizing behaviors need to be understood. Regulation-focused psychotherapy appreciates the centrality of the clinical dynamic concept of regulation-focused intervention against painful emotion, emphasizes the mental process model, and is an experience-near technical intervention. This approach integrates the neural network/representational approach