<b>THREE APPROACHES IN CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

Knowledge on the children´s world is the product of discussions, proposals and advances derived from an adult perspective. Children psychotherapy is an investment in the promotion and legitimation of listening and children´s protagonism in the wake of demands and idiosyncrasies of its world and trajectory. As the main tool in most children´s psychotherapy, ludotherapy is the translational tool of children´s expression. Current essay provides a survey of convergent and divergent aspects discriminated in the three approaches in children´s psychotherapy: Psychoanalysis, behavior analysis and existential phenomenology. Results show that, although the three approaches have different ideas of the human being and the world, all aim at employing theoretical and methodological resources so that the child would achieve autonomy and well-being and become the author of its own history.