This book, written as a question-and-answer dialogue between a child therapist and a supervisor, addresses all aspects of the situations encountered daily in work with children and their parents. From the most basic and practical to the broadest and most multifaceted, the questions search out the essence of what transpires in the treatment of a child.

Here is a provocative, highly readable manual filled with information to help the beginning therapist work more effectively with children. Writing in a lucid and candid style, the author emphasizes the importance of recognizing that the environment around the child as well as the child himself need changing in order for therapy to be successful. Part 1 is an introduction to the field of child psychotherapy as it relates to eclectic child psychiatry, to education, to social science, and to medicine. Part Il deals with the spectrum of forces that enhance therapy. lt discusses the child's family and how it can be made useful to therapy, the child himself, the referral source, the child mental health team, and the human service agencies of the whole community. The third and most practical part of the book is devoted to clinical work with the child directly. Here the reader will find witty, explicit, and useful instructions - often even irreverent suggestions - on how to conduct the interview with a child, how to make a diagnostic assessment, how to plan and work out the therapeutic relationship, and how to terminate therapy with a child. Also inciudsd is a chapter on special approaches designed to make therapeutic work flow productively with adolescents. Psychiatrie residents, chi Id psychiatry fellows, pediatric interns and residents, and medical students as well as advanced students of social work, education, psychology, nursing, and occupational therapy will find this book invaluable as a working manual of child psychotherapy.

Most courses in counseling, social work, therapy, and clinical psychology programs lump clinical work with "children and adolescents" together into a single unit while the social, emotional, physical, and neurobiological development of youth is often only a portion of a development course that covers the entire human lifespan. The consequence is twofold: department chairs, accrediting agencies, administrators, and faculty are tasked with covering too much content in too few course hours; and graduate students and beginning practitioners are woefully unprepared for working with difficult populations, including teenagers and young adults. Evidence-Based Psychotherapy with Adolescents helps new clinicians working in any treatment setting learn how to conduct psychotherapy with adolescents from a place of understanding and empathy. In addition to addressing adolescent development, psychological theories in practice, neurobiology of adolescents, clinical assessment, and evidence-based treatment approaches for a range of common mental health concerns, the text explains how to build therapeutic alliances with adolescent clients and work with vulnerable populations commonly seen in treatment. A complete guide that empowers readers with the insight and tools necessary to support adolescents as they progress towards adulthood, this book effectively builds the core skill sets of students and new clinicians in social work, psychology, psychiatry, and marriage and family therapy.

Designed to bring synthesis to counseling students' entire course of study, this title covers the vital information from all CACREP-required core courses. It also prepares final semester master's students for their comprehensive written and oral examinations and the National Counselors Examination. Additionally, it serves as resource manual for practicing mental health professionals, including theories, terms, ethical codes, tips on taking exams, and sample forms.

Based on over 25 years of research supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN), and other funding sources, Child Sexual Abuse describes a premier empirically supported treatment approach for children, adolescents, and non-offending parents/caregivers impacted by child sexual abuse