Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities--all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework--this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) toolkits. Going beyond the basics, the authors provide effective ways to engage hard-to-reach clients, address challenging problems, and target particular cognitive and behavioral skills. Fun and productive games, crafts, and other activities are described in step-by-step detail. More than 30 reproducible forms and handouts can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. See also the authors' authoritative introduction to CBT with young patients, Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents, Second Edition: The Nuts and Bolts.
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Concise and accessible, the book is designed for optimal clinical utility. Leading scientist-practitioners provide a brief overview of each clinical problem and its assessment and management.
Guidance for integrating parents and families into the child's treatment is shared for every disorder covered in the book. The book offers a well-organized explication of innovative, effective methods and tools.
This first concise guide to conducting cognitive therapy (CT) with adolescents in school settings features in-depth case examples and hands-on clinical tools.
This is one of them that I am adapting from David Copperfield's wonderful Project Magic Handbook. He titles the trick “Anyone Can Read Minds.” You need any seven objects, a piece of paper, a pen, and your trusty mind puppet (see the ...
This Handbook offers a much-needed resource of theoretical knowledge, evidence-based interventions, and practical guidelines for professionals providing group psychotherapy to youth clients.
Fortunately, the literature on CBT with children and adolescents is filled with many excellent textbooks that offer ... In CBT Express, we do not present a full discussion of the theoretical rationale and/or empirical support for any of ...
Another disagreement between A. Freud and Klein was about whether the preoedipal child could be analyzed. Anna Freud's position was that a child who could not form an oedipal object relationship with the therapist could not be analyzed; ...
Computerized delivery of CBT for chronic pain is emerging as an effective medium (see Chapter 3). Newer Forms of CBT In the past decade, several new developments have been put forth concerning the contextual framework of ...
"The book is primarily written for child mental health professionals, especially psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, social workers and psychotherapists as well as those training in these fields.