The Triangle of Conflict: Applications of a Core Intervention From Manualized Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

The accessibility of manualized youth psychodynamic psychotherapies^1-3 facilitates their use in hospital-based and community clinic settings. Implementation of their component interventions within a single patient encounter can expand their utility throughout the hospital, including in emergency departments, pediatric floors, and partial hospitalization and inpatient psychiatry services. Here, we share a core intervention drawn from one of these manualized works, Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C),² named the Triangle of Conflict.