Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents: The Nuts and Bolts

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Summary: The Practical Nuts and Bolts
Review: This text covers all the basics of cognitive therapy as it applies to children and adolescents. Chapters include Case Conceptualization, Session Structure, Connecting Feelings and Thoughts, Therapeutic Dialogues, Commonly Used Cognitive and Behavioral Techniques, Creative Applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Homework. Specific chapters are devoted to working with depressed children and adolescents, disruptive children and adolescents and anxious children and adolescents. There is also a chapter on working with parents. In my view, this book is better suited to therapists who already have a working knowledge of CBT and who are looking for guidelines to apply CBT to children and adolescents. Overall this text is an excellent overview of CBT (including references) as it applies to children and adolescents. This reviewer has an M.Ed in counseling and 20-years of experience in counseling and social work.