Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy : Components of Evidence-Based Treatments for Youth and their Parents

This graduate-level textbook presents the research-supported treatment packages for every major mental health issue facing infants, children, and adolescents. It also reviews the special roles of parents, assessment, and medication, among others. It is for courses in child psychotherapy, school psychology, and developmental psychopathology.

Every day, millions of children experience serious mental health issues, such as symptoms related to autism, psychosis, mania, depression, and anxiety. Moreover, many youth struggle with issues related to trauma, eating, sleep, disruptive behavior, and substance use. Most of these youth do not receive evidence-based treatments. Instead, they commonly receive untested, ineffective, and even harmful treatments. Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy presents the research-supported treatment packages and their individual components for every major mental health issue facing infants, children, and adolescents. Each chapter also identifies and analyzes other variables and resources that influence treatment: parents, assessment, comorbidity, demographics and medication. Useful resources are included for each mental health issued covered in the book. The chapters are organized in the same order as they appear in the DSM-5.