What Works with Children Adolescents and Adults?

<p><em>What Works with Children Adolescents and Adults</em>? provides an up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy and psychological interventions with children adolescents adults people in later life and people with intellectual and pervasive developmental disabilities.</p><p>Drawing on recent meta-analyses systematic reviews and key research studies in psychotherapy this volume presents evidence for:</p><ul> <li>the overall effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy</li> <li>the contribution of common factors to the outcome of successful psychotherapy</li> <li>the effectiveness of specific psychotherapy protocols for particular problems.</li> </ul><p>This comprehensive user-friendly guide will inform clinical practice service development and policy. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists service managers policymakers and researchers. </p><p><em>What Works with Children Adolescents and Adults?</em> offers a review of the evidence base for three <em>Handbooks</em> published by Routledge: <em>The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology</em> (Carr 2006) <em>The</em> <em>Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology</em> (Carr & McNulty 2006) and <em>The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice</em> (O’Reilly Carr Walsh & McEvoy 2007).</p>