
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychology Treatment Modules
Personalized Care in Behavior and Emotion
- 1st Edition - August 17, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Lara Jean Farrell, Rachael Murrihy, Cecilia A. Essau
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 6 1 3 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 6 1 4 - 3
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychology Treatment Modules: Personalized Care in Behavior and Emotion provides clinicians with modularized treatment strategies for common… Read more
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Request a sales quoteHandbook of Child and Adolescent Psychology Treatment Modules: Personalized Care in Behavior and Emotion provides clinicians with modularized treatment strategies for commonly occurring child and youth mental health disorders. Divided into two sections, the first part of the book translates basic science into clinical practice, reviewing predictors, mediators and moderators of change, and an overview of evidence for best practices in treating disorders. The second section guides clinicians on how to implement treatment strategies. Chapters instruct what therapy is, how to introduce it to clients, step-by-step implementation, worksheets for use in practice, homework to send home with clients, and more.
- Summarizes evidence base and best practices for therapy
- Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing therapy
- Includes treatment activities, clinical worksheets and client homework
- Describes challenges to implementation, along with solutions
- Identifies ways to facilitate adherence/buy-in
- Features case examples
Clinical practicing psychologists, counselors, social workers, Research clinical psychologists and developmental psychologists
Part 1 Emotional Disorders
A. Overview
1 Anxiety in children and adolescents
2 Depression in children and adolescents
B. Clinicians Guidelines and Case Examples
3 Psychoeducation: Anxiety & Depression
4 Behavioural Activation
5 Cognitive Restructuring
6 Exposure Therapy
7 Exposure &Response Prevention: OCD
8 Problem Solving
9 Social Skills Training
10 Pharmacological Treatment for Anxiety and Depression
Part 2 Behavioural Problems
A. Overview
11 Disruptive Behavior Disorders
B. Clinicians Guidelines and Case Examples
12 Psychoeducation / Myths of parenting
13 Monitoring Behaviours at Home and School & Establishing Expectations
14 Increasing Compliance
15 Decreasing Non-Compliance (logical consequences, response cost, time out).
16 Collaborative Problem Solving
17 Pharmacological Treatment – DBD’s
Part 3 Contextual Issues
18 Cultural Sensitivity and Modifications for Child Emotional Disorders
19 Addressing Complex Comorbidity
20 Supporting Families when there is Violence or Neglect
21 Addressing stigmatisation
A. Overview
1 Anxiety in children and adolescents
2 Depression in children and adolescents
B. Clinicians Guidelines and Case Examples
3 Psychoeducation: Anxiety & Depression
4 Behavioural Activation
5 Cognitive Restructuring
6 Exposure Therapy
7 Exposure &Response Prevention: OCD
8 Problem Solving
9 Social Skills Training
10 Pharmacological Treatment for Anxiety and Depression
Part 2 Behavioural Problems
A. Overview
11 Disruptive Behavior Disorders
B. Clinicians Guidelines and Case Examples
12 Psychoeducation / Myths of parenting
13 Monitoring Behaviours at Home and School & Establishing Expectations
14 Increasing Compliance
15 Decreasing Non-Compliance (logical consequences, response cost, time out).
16 Collaborative Problem Solving
17 Pharmacological Treatment – DBD’s
Part 3 Contextual Issues
18 Cultural Sensitivity and Modifications for Child Emotional Disorders
19 Addressing Complex Comorbidity
20 Supporting Families when there is Violence or Neglect
21 Addressing stigmatisation
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 17, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 408
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323996136
- eBook ISBN: 9780323996143
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Lara Jean Farrell
Lara Jean Farrell is an Associate Professor of applied psychology at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus in Brisbane Australia, and a practicing clinical psychologist in a private practice. She is an Editorial Board Member on Australian Psychologist, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders. She serves as the international editor of International Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the associate editor for Child Psychiatry and Human Development as well as the book series editor for Clinical Practice Parameters for Child and Youth Emotional and Behavioural Problems. Her research is on evidence-based interventions for child and adolescent mental health, CBT, exposure therapy, child anxiety, resilience, and child insomnia.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Australia; Practicing Clinical Psychologist in a private practiceRM
Rachael Murrihy
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Clinical Psychologist and Research Associate, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaCE
Cecilia A. Essau
Cecilia A. Essau is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Roehampton, UK where she is Director of Centre for Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (CARACAW). She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and her “Habilitation” in Psychology (qualification for tenure-track professorships in Germany) from the University of Bremen (Germany). She is the first Iban woman to have received a PhD.
Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London, UKRead Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychology Treatment Modules on ScienceDirect