from Part III - Specific treatments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 May 2010
Editor's note
This chapter provides an introduction to the various types of psychological treatments currently being provided to children and adolescents. Because the chapter is considered as an overview of psychological interventions, it emphasizes the various types of interventions and reviews some of the techniques of those interventions rather than focusing on the effectiveness of any particular type of intervention. While a table has been provided to review the overall efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions in this patient age-grouping, more detail will be provided for the effectiveness of these interventions in the sections that discuss specific disorders. Thus the table here probably underestimates the effectiveness of these interventions because they probably are not equally effective across all mental health conditions that impact children. Since the major social context in which children operate is the home (and the school), there is mention made of family therapy as well. The section covers both non-directive and directive individual as well as group therapies. The approaches include dynamic, behavioural and cognitive-behavioural. Family and systemic therapy is reviewed as well as parent and family skills training. Such training and educational interventions also take place in social skills training and problem solving groups.
Psychological treatments
General issues
Children are not small adults. Obvious as it may seem, this fact somehow gets forgotten or becomes an issue that seems overwhelming for those not working in this field.
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