1. Yesterday's children: Today's mothers and fathers
2. Early childhood: Learning to be safe at home
3. Going to school: Coping with a complex world
4. Becoming an adult: Leaving and loving
5. Remembering the future: The process of mental representation
6. How do parents affect children's representations?
7. Representation and child-rearing that endangers children
8. Distortions of normal child-protective behavior: Marginal maltreatment of children
9. Distortions of normal child-protective behavior: Physical abuse of children
10. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: Distortions that emphasize parental self-comfort
11. Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: The absence of parental protection
12. Distortions that substitute erroneous information for accurate information and that misconstrue children as being threatened
13. Distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurate information misconstruing the child as being the threat
Part 3. An Integrative Approach to Treatment
14. Why do we need a new theory of treatment?
15. Ideas that underlie the dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment
16. The dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment
17. Assessment relevant to differential treatment
18. Functional formulation and the plan for treatment
19. Psychological treatment and information processing
20. Psychological treatment: Three cases
21. Improving the safety of children and families
