Title: Handbook of child and adolescent treatment manuals
Description: In the field of child and adolescent therapy there are numerous books describing theories and techniques of treatment. Until now there has been no clear presentation of how such theories translate into day-to-day practice.

Craig LeCroy offers specific treatment manuals for carrying out particular programs including group treatment for children of divorce, for social skills training, and for the prevention of drug use, as well as treatment of childhood anxiety and depression, of academic problems, of conduct disorders, and for anger management, among others. Each treatment manual is based on extensive field testing by the author

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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Treatment Manuals provides practitioners, students, and researchers with specific methods and procedures used with children and adolescents. Each chapter is a specific treatment guide that has been tested and carefully refined through use, presenting concrete, step-by-step instructions for effectively treating various child and adolescent behavior problems.

The book covers the major clinical disorders and social problems facing children and adolescents, as well as new developments and refinements in the treatment of these problems. Experts in the field provide descriptions of treatment approaches for rational emotive therapy with children, social skills training, anger-control training, adolescent relapse prevention, divorce-adjustment groups, parent-adolescent conflict, and more

. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Treatment Manuals is designed to be an important reference handbook for practitioners in various child and adolescent settings including schools, mental health clinics, residential treatment centers, group homes, family service agencies, and juvenile correction centers.
Subjects: Child psychotherapy, Adolescent psychotherapy, Handbooks, manuals, Psychotherapy, Adolescent, Child