Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; References; Section 1 Developmental cognitive theory and clinical practice; 2 Anxiety and depression in young people: developmental considerations; Introduction; Changes in the social world; Are environmental factors implicated in child and adolescent anxiety and depression?; Are there age-related changes in these environmental factors?; Genetic innovation across development; Are genetic factors implicated in child and adolescent anxiety and depression?; Are there age-related changes in genetic factors?
  • Continuing maturation of the emotional and social brainAre neural factors implicated in child and adolescent anxiety and depression?; Are there age-related changes in neural factors?; Developmental aspects of information-processing biases and cognitive vulnerability; Are information-processing biases and cognitive vulnerability factors implicated in child and adolescent anxiety and depression?; Are there age-related changes in information-processing and cognitive vulnerability?; Concluding remarks: an integration and suggestions for early interventions; Acknowledgements; References.
  • 3 Adapting cognitive behaviour therapy for children and adolescentsCognitive behaviour therapy; Cognitive behaviour therapy techniques; Cognitive behaviour therapy process; Cognitive behaviour therapy with young children (under 7); Adapting cognitive behaviour therapy for young children (under 7); The process of CBT with young children (under 7); Cognitive behaviour therapy with children (7-11); Adapting cognitive behaviour therapy for children (7-11); The process of cognitive behaviour therapy with children (7-11); Adolescents; The process of cognitive behaviour therapy with adolescents.
  • ConclusionReferences; 4 Issues in evaluation of psychotherapies; Introduction; Research questions; Inferring causal mechanisms; Randomised controlled trials; Use of routinely collected large-scale datasets to explore outcomes; Determining underlying mechanisms accounting for change; Determining significance of impact; Issues in evaluation of routine practice; Whose outcome is it anyway?; What domain(s) should be evaluated?; How often to measure impact or change?; How to use outcome information to inform practice; Qualitative exploration and review; Trajectory tracking for individual cases.
  • Use of aggregated outcome data for benchmarkingConcluding remarks: linking academic and practitioner research; Exploring individuality in terms of trajectories of change; Exploring more nuanced models of process and outcomes; Developing further academic-practice links; References; Section 2 Engagement and assessment; 5 Engagement; Introduction; Therapeutic engagement and therapeutic alliance; Is engaging with adolescents important?; Factors influencing engagement; Adolescent-related factors; Family-related factors; Therapy-related factors; Therapist-related factors.