Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Every day millions of children experience serious mental health issues such as symptoms related to autism psychosis mania depression and anxiety. Moreover many youth struggle with issues related to trauma eating sleep disruptive behavior and substance use. Most of these youth do not receive evidence-based treatments. Instead they commonly receive untested ineffective and even harmful treatments. Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy presents the research-supported treatment packages and their individual components for every major mental health issue facing infants children and adolescents. Each chapter also identifies and analyzes other variables and resources that influence treatment: parents assessment comorbidity demographics and medication. Useful resources are included for each mental health issued covered in the book. The chapters are organized in the same order as they appear in the DSM-5.