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Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents
The Nuts and Bolts

Robert D. Friedberg and Jessica M. McClure

This lively, practical book offers a complete guide to doing cognitive therapy with children and adolescents. Within a clear theoretical framework, the authors describe how to adapt cognitive therapy principles and procedures to the unique needs of distressed children and their parents. The book starts with the fundamentals, demonstrating a clear-cut yet flexible approach to case conceptualization and treatment planning. Detailed guidelines are then presented to help the clinician introduce cognitive therapy to children and families; identify problems, feelings, and thoughts; craft Socratic dialogues; design homework assignments; and implement a range of traditional and creative interventions. Concluding chapters focus explicitly on techniques for managing depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior in youth. Devoting special attention to cultural diversity issues, the book is filled with illustrative case examples and session vignettes. Included are over a dozen useful reproducible worksheets and forms.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Case Conceptualization
3. Collaborative Empiricism and Guided Discovery
4. Session Structure
5. Introducing the Treatment Model and Identifying Problems
6. Identifying and Connecting Thoughts and Feelings
7. Therapeutic Socratic Dialogues
8. Commonly Used Cognitive and Behavioral Techniques
9. Creative Applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
10. Homework
11. Working with Depressed Children and Adolescents
12. Working with Anxious Children and Adolescents
13. Working with Disruptive Children and Adolescents
14. Working with Parents

Reviews

"At last! Friedberg and McClure bring clinicians into their offices and show in detail how cognitive therapy can be done with children and adolescents. Graduate students and therapists in training will devour every page....As an experienced clinician, I appreciate that each treatment chapter introduces creative interventions that are new to me. Included are detailed descriptions of each intervention, session transcripts, and client worksheets, which will help me quickly add the new techniques and procedures to my repertoire of favored interventions. In addition, useful flow charts guide therapists in choosing among the variety of methods taught, depending on treatment goals and client needs. This book is leaping to the top of my list of recommendations for therapists wanting to improve the cognitive therapy they offer children and adolescents."
-Christine A. Padesky, PhD, coauthor of Mind Over Mood

"This book expertly fills a void in the literature. It provides clinicians with an in-depth, state-of-the-art approach for linking specific cases with specific cognitive treatments, and does so for a variety of clinical populations. A developmental and multicultural orientation enhances the text as well, making it a 'must have' for practitioners working with youth with behavior disorders. The book's focus on case conceptualization and the 'nuts and bolts'of cognitive therapy also makes it an excellent resource for child psychopathology courses."
-Christopher A. Kearney, PhD, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"Friedberg and McClure provide a comprehensive and empirically based guide....[This book] represents a significant contribution to the field of cognitive therapy, and will be an important text for courses on child and adolescent therapy, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and/or school counseling. Filled with practical information, the book will also be an invaluable resource for clinical supervisors involved in the training of therapists in practicum and clinical settings."
-William J. Lyddon, PhD, University of Southern Mississippi