Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children

✍ Scribed by Andrew W. Meyers, W. Edward Craighead (auth.), Andrew W. Meyers, W. Edward Craighead (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 506
• Series: Applied Clinical Psychology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent estimates (Hallahan & Kauffman, 1978) indicate that over 4. 7 million children, 7.3% of the child population under the age of 19, are labeled emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, or learning-disabled. Moreover, many of these children remain unserved or are inadequately served. The past decade has produced an increasing concern with the mental health needs of these children and their families. This trend had as much impact in behavior therapy as it did in any other branch of the helping professions. Behavioral work with children, with its emphasis on skill development and environmental modification, helped to build into child psychotherapy a true preventive mental health orientation. The ease of delivery and application of behavioral procedures allowed parents and other caregivers to become meaningfully involved in the clinical process, and so facilitated therapy gains and the maintenance and generalization of those gains. Perhaps the most significant change in behavior therapy in the 1970s was the move beyond interventions derived strictly from learning theories to applications based on knowledge from a variety of psycho­ logical research areas. The cognitive mediational activities of the client have received special attention, and this book presents the conceptual, methodological, and clinical issues in contemporary cognitive behavior therapy with children.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children....Pages 1-17
Social Development in Childhood....Pages 19-44
Cognitive Development and Clinical Interventions....Pages 45-68
Family Systems....Pages 69-98
Assessment Issues and Strategies in Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children....Pages 99-128
Locus of Intervention in Child Cognitive Behavior Therapy....Pages 129-162
Cognitive Training with Learning-Disabled Pupils....Pages 163-191
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions with Mentally Retarded Children....Pages 193-227
Cognitive Behavior Modification with Psychotic Children....Pages 229-260
Integrating Cognitive and Behavioral Procedures for the Treatment of Socially Isolated Children....Pages 261-288
Childhood Stress and Anxiety....Pages 289-313
Aggression....Pages 315-350
Cognitive Behavioral Interventions with Delinquents....Pages 351-376
Preventive Interventions for Children....Pages 377-409
Back Matter....Pages 411-493

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology