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Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents
From: The Guilford Press Publisher: The Guilford Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: The Guilford Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 476 Publication Date: May 07, 2003
Product Description: This volume provides a uniquely practical overview of evidence-based treatments for social, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and youth. Pioneering clinical researchers offer accessible, hands-on presentations of their respective approaches: what the primary therapeutic goals and methods are, how interventions are delivered on a session-by-session basis, how to tell if the treatment is suitable for a particular child, and what manuals and materials are available to clinicians and researchers. Therapist qualifications are summarized and training and supervision needs reviewed. Chapters also include concise reviews of the evidence supporting each approach and discuss important directions for future research.
Evidence Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents The book came quickly and in the condition described. I was very happy with the seller
Missing some crucial evidenced based therapies. This books is useful for gaining an introductory understanding to some of the approaches that have been researched and found useful for children and adolescents. My only concern is that it has excluded some of the most empirically validated approaches, i.e. Filial Therapy and Play Therapy. I am confused as to why these are omitted from the text when there is some very solid research behind these approaches.
Book arrived on time. Book arrived on time and was of good use during a class I took.
Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents Is a good book written by Alan E. Kazdin. However we have four childrens of our own and I never needed a book to teach them manners and also to teach them to respect family, friends, and neighbours.
If you want a book like this one, this is the one to get This is a compendium of articles, by a host of different researchers, describing different aspects of "evidence-based" psychotherapies for children and adolescents. The first four chapters describe the concept of "evidence-based," its evolution, how research on psychotherapy with children must incorporate developmental factors, and the ethical aspects of doing research on psychotherapy. The basic premise of "evidence-based" psychotherapy is that there have been empirically sound, replicated, and meaningful research studies that have demonstrated the efficacy of that therapy. This is important because, in the past, a theorist would come forward, claiming to have found a treatment that was highly effective for a certain psychopathology, describe three case histories to support his claim, and many people accepted the treatment as effective. How could anyone know it was the treatment that brought about the change, and not just the therapeutic relationship between the client and the therapist? Did anyone know how many times the therapy did NOT work? Would it work for anyone else? Would it even work for the very next client that the author used the technique with?
From this point in the book on, each chapter deals with a specific form of therapy used for a specific client-population, with a specific psychopathology or disorder. Each chapter has the following format:
1. A basic description of the disorder being addressed, including its impact on children, adolescents, and their families. 2. The seminal research or theory, upon which the about-to-be-described therapy is based. 3. A fairly detailed description of the specific therapy program. 4. The research evidence backing the therapy technique. 5. Possible future directions for research in this area. 6. A summary or conclusion section. 7. A bibliography of the cited research.
Some of the chapters tell you how to purchase the manuals for the therapy described, how to join the ongoing research trials, and even how to download relevant material (a few even for free).
The first two chapters on therapy techniques describes two different approaches for helping children with anxiety disorders. Both approaches are well-described, and sound highly user-friendly and client-friendly. The first focuses mainly on working with the child, while the second has a much stronger parental and/or family component to the treatment.
The next four chapters are on the issue of treating adolescents who are depressed. The approaches vary in such aspects as group-work versus individual work, level of family involvement, and degree of focus on cognitive or behavioral aspects, or a combination.
Next, there is a section on "externalizing" problems, that starts with one chapter on the behavioral treatment of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. There are then six chapters on children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder. These chapters are arranged, roughly, in ascending order of problem severity.
The remaining chapters address "Other Disorders." The first two focus on children with Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The third chapter in this section, was the one that I found troubling. It is a well-written, highly organized program to address child with anorexia nervosa and related eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa often has, at its base, a longstanding and intense control battle between a highly controlled, and highly controlling child, and his/her parents. The basic tenant of the treatment approach described, is that the parents must start by taking complete control of their child's eating behavior. While I understand the rationale stated by the author of this chapter, I kept imagining the terrible control battles that would seem almost inevitable, to me, once the described treatment approach began. I guess that, as the research showed evidence of efficacy, it must have value, but I would never use this approach.
The next two chapters describe very behavioral programs to treat, respectively, pediatric obesity and non-medical enuresis (bed-wetting). These chapters were very organized and described, in detail, techniques that sound very usable, for clients and clinicians.
The next two chapters describe two different formats for treating children in Hispanic families. These chapters were also well-written.
Who would find this book useful?
1. Someone who is in charge of helping a clinic move toward adding more of an evidence-based approach to the treatment being provided.
2. Someone who wants to find good research to replicate (Master's thesis) or expand upon (Doctoral dissertation).
3. A young therapist who is seeking a way to specialize in an area that has research to back it.
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