
Assessment and Intervention with Children and Adolescents Who Misuse Fire: Practitioner Guide
David J. Kolko and Eric M. Vernberg
Children and adolescents in the general population and in clinical populations reveal surprisingly high rates of playing with fire or actual firesetting behavior. A single fire has the ...
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Anxiety Disorders
Wendy K. Silverman and William M. Kurtines
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter focuses on the treatment of anxiety disorders inchildren. It begins with a brief summary of the prevalence, developmental precursors,and consequences of anxiety disorders in ...
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A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Treatment of Maltreated Children
Patricia M. Crittenden, Andrea Landini, and Angelika H. Claussen
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter presents a “dynamic-maturational” perspective on treatment of emotionaland behavioral disorder, and describes those specific treatments that are most suitablefor maltreated ...
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Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
Jan N. Hughes, Annette M. La Greca, and Jane Close Conoley (eds)
This handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of the key elements which should be part of any successful program tailored to the needs of children with diagnosable mental, behavioral, ...
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Supporting low intensity interventions using the telephone
Karina Lovell
in Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Chapter 27 discusses LI interventions using the telephone, and aims to provide the rationale, evidence base, challenges, solutions and practical application of delivering low intensity ...
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Mindfulness and meditation in the workplace: An acceptance and commitment therapy approach
Frank W. Bond, Paul E. Flaxman, and Joda Lloyd
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
There is a wide range and growing body of evidence that mental health and behavioral effectiveness are influenced more by how people interact with their thoughts and feelings than by their ...
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Children Experiencing Disasters: Prevention and Intervention
Annette M. La Greca
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter describes the symptoms and prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in childrenand adolescents, as well as other reactions that may result from exposure to ...
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Children and Adolescents Experiencing Traumatic Brain Injury
Stephen R. Hooper and Christopher Baglio
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter explores the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents. It presents an overview of TBI, empirically supported interventions (early rehabilitation ...
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Depressive Disorders
Pamela J. Bachanas and Nadine J. Kaslow
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter discusses depressive disorders in children and adolescents, including a psychiatric perspective on the clinical characteristics of the disorder, epidemiology of depressive ...
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Psychological Services for Children with Learning Disabilities
Maribeth Gettinger and Rebecca Koscik
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter discusses psychological services for children with learning disabilities (LDs). It outlines the definition and prevalence of LD, functional characteristics and consequences, ...
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Preventing Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Timothy A. Cavell, Susan T. Ennett, and Barbara T. Meehan
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter discusses prevention of the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD), and describes several prevention programs that have undergone empirical scrutiny and that hold ...
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Prenatal Drug Exposure: Psychoeducational Outcomes and Prevention Models
Leadelle Phelps
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter reviews the biological bases and psychoeducational manifestations of prenatal drug exposure, with a particular focus on intrauterine exposure to alcohol and cocaine, the ...
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Treating Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Arthur D. Anastopoulos, Erika E. Klingere, and Paige Temple
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a criticalreview of the various treatments that are available for addressing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and itsassociated ...
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Effective Community-Based Interventions for Antisocial and Delinquent Adolescents
Stanley J. Huey and Scott W. Henggeler
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter discusses community-based interventions for antisocial and delinquent adolescents, aswell as evidence for their long-term effectiveness. In addition, the empirical ...
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Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
David M. Garner and Julie J. Desai
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter aims to provide background regarding diagnosticand prevalence of eating disorders and then to discuss the risk factor model,including major cultural, biological, and ...
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Systemic Interventions for Safe Schools
Jane Close Conoley and Colleen A. Conoley
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter explores empirically supported prevention and intervention programs for youth violence that can be delivered or coordinated by schools. The special focus of this chapter is on ...
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Low-Level Aggression: New Targets for Zero Tolerance
Arnold P. Goldstein
in Handbook of Psychological Services for Children and Adolescents
This chapter concerns low-level aggression and escalation. Initial empirical support is developing for theidea that low-level aggression, when rewarded, grows (often rapidly) into ...
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Introduction and Prep Session
Bryan D. Carter, William G. Kronenberger, Eric L. Scott, and Christine E. Brady
in Children's Health and Illness Recovery Program (CHIRP): Clinician Guide
This chapter provides the clinician with an overview of the clinical issues prevalent in working with teens with chronic illnesses and their families and the rationale and evidence ...
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What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?
Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin, and Clarissa W. Ong
in ACT in Steps: A Transdiagnostic Manual for Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This chapter provides a broad overview of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), including empirical evidence for its effectiveness, how it fits with other cognitive-behavioral therapies, ...
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Clinical Child and Adolescent Intervention Strategies
Alfred J. Finch, John E. Lochman, W. Michael Nelson III, and Michael C. Roberts
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Chapter 5 provides an overview of a clinician's functional competencies with regard to psychological interventions with children and adolescents, and focuses on levels of intervention ...
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