Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: Directions for Research and Practice / Edition 1

by Alan E. Kazdin

Overview

What do we wish to know about psychotherapy and its effects? What do we already know? And what needs to be accomplished to fill the gap? These questions and more are explored in this thoroughly updated book about the current status and future directions of psychotherapy for children and adolescents. It retains a balance between practical concerns and research, reflecting many of the new approaches to children that have appeared in the past ten years.

Designed to change the direction of current work, this book outlines a blueprint or model to guide future research and elaborates the ways in which therapy needs to be studied. By focusing on clinical practice and what can be changed, it offers suggestions for improvement of patient care and advises how clinical work can contribute directly and in new ways to the accumulation of knowledge. Although it discusses in detail present psychotherapy research, this book is squarely aimed at progress in the future, making it ideal for psychologists, psychiatrists, and all mental health care practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195126181
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	12/28/1999
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

I. BACKGROUND
1. Introduction
2. Clinical Problems of Children and Adolescents
3. Approaches, Treatments, and Characteristics of Psychotherapy
II. EVIDENCE: MAJOR FINDINGS, STRENGTHS, AND LIMITATIONS
4. The Effects of Psychotherapy: Current Status of the Evidence
5. The Effects of Psychotherapy: Empirically Supported Treatments
6. Treatments that Work: Illustrations of Exemplary Research
7. Characteristics and Limitations of Therapy Research
III. IMPROVING THERAPY RESEARCH
8. Developing Effective Treatments: A Model for Clinical Research
9. Designing and Conducting a Treatment Study
10. Implementing and Evaluating Treatment in Clinical Practice
11. Psychotherapy Research in Perspective
Appendix A: List of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapies
Appendix B: Methodology in a Nutshell, Dr. Irving Quickie
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

"The book is refreshingly written, and rings with a warm authority that is a useful reminder to researchers, and a welcome change for clinicians concerned about the split between research and clinical practice. I recommend it to both clinicians and researchers, and also to health planners concerned about whether psychotherapy is useful form of medical treatment. The anser is a resounding yes, and Dr. Kazdin is clarifying and improving our understanding of this answer." — D.S. Palframan, MD, Annals RCPSC, Vol. 33, No. 6, Sept 2000

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