Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-504) and index.
Child and adolescent psychotherapies: the lay of the land -- Four classic treatments for fears: modeling, systemic desensitization, reinforced exposure, and self-talk -- Therapies for anxiety disorders: coping cat, coping koala, and family anxiety management -- Cognitive-behavioral therapies for child depression -- Cognitive-behavioral therapies for adolescent depression -- Using behavioral parent training to treat ADHD -- Behavioral programs for ADHD in classroom and camp settings -- Treating conduct problems by teaching anger control -- Behavioral parent training and family treatment for conduct problems -- Parent-child interaction treatments for child noncompliance -- Parent training through video modeling and structured group discussion -- Using problem solving skills training and parent management training to help children with conduct disorder -- Multisystemic therapy for antisocial and delinquent youth -- Evidence-based youth psychotherapies: strengths, limitations, future directions.
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The effectiveness of psychotherapy with children and adolescents is discussed in this provocative volume, which is essential reading for a wide range of mental health practitioners. Issues discussed include: who drops out and who stays in treatment; clinic- and community-based therapy; conditions that maximize therapy effects; and whether the effects of therapy differ with child age or gender, therapist level of experience or variations in therapeutic method. The authors provide an authoritative overview of both research and practice. Research findings on the effects of child psychotherapy are pooled through the use of meta-analytic procedures and then examined and summarized by the authors. They then discuss methods for increasing the effectiveness of psychotherapy with the population under review and offer suggestions for future research.