Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
In this book, a clinical scientist highlights youth psychotherapies that have been tested and shown to work. Treatments for fears and anxiety, depression, attention deficits and ADHD, and conduct problems and disorder are described in detail, their conceptual basis explained, their clinical application illustrated by richly developed case examples, and their prospects for use in clinical practice examined closely. This clinical perspective is complemented by summaries and critiques of the empirical evidence on each treatment and by commentaries on what questions remain unanswered. The author's clinical and scientific experience converge to produce a uniquely valuable experience on exemplary treatments for children and adolescents.
- Useful to practitioners, clinical service planners, administrators
- Each treatment illustrated with a full case study
- Useful to researchers, professors, and students
Reviews & endorsements
"There is plenty in the book to please researchers....The book has several other virtues, including the quality of the writing, the voluminous documentation, the sober appraisal of the current status of EST's for child disorders, and a multistep blueprint for improving future research so that it simultaneously satisfies the researchers and is more helpful to clinicians." Contemporary Psychology
"This is an excellent book for both the novice and experienced therapist as it addresses both the clinical and practical issues of conducting psychotherapy in children and adolescents as well as the more esoteric research isues." - The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review, Suneeta Monga, MD
Product details
February 2004Paperback
9780521576727
544 pages
225 × 150 × 25 mm
0.73kg
18 b/w illus. 6 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. General Introduction:
- 1. Youth psychotherapies: the lay of the land
- Part II. Treatments for Fears and Anxiety: Section introduction and the case of Sean:
- 2. Four classic treatments for fears: modeling, systemic desensitization, reinforced exposure, and self-talk
- 3. Therapies for anxiety disorders: coping cat, coping koala, and family anxiety management
- Part III. Treatments for Depression: Section introduction and the case of Mega:
- 4. Cognitive-behavioral therapies for child depression
- 5. Cognitive-behavioral therapies for adolescent depression
- Part IV. Treatments for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Section introduction and the case of Sal:
- 8. Treating conduct problems by teaching anger control
- 9. Behavioral parent training and family treatment for conduct problems
- 10. Parent-child interaction treatments for child noncompliance
- 11. Parent training through video modeling and structured group discussion
- 12. Using problem solving skills training and parent management training to help children with conduct disorder
- 13. Multisystemic therapy for antisocial and delinquent youth
- Part V. Conclusion:
- 14. Evidence-based youth psychotherapies: strengths, limitations, future directions
- References.
