Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Subtitle: Evidence-Based Treatments and Case Examples
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780521571951
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Psychotherapy; Sociology, Social Studies; Pediatrics; Evidence-based psychiatry; Psychology; Medical; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Child psychotherapy; Nursing - Psychiatric; Adolescent psychotherapy; Case studies
Description: 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.