Description
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.
About the Author
Hupp, Stephen: - Stephen Hupp is a Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Child and School Psychology program at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE). He is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Social-Emotional Consultant for the East St Louis Head Start Program. He is the author of over fifty scholarly publications, including three other books: Great Myths of Child Development (2015), Great Myths of Adolescence (forthcoming), and Critical Thinking about Child Development (fourth edition, forthcoming). In 2015, he won the Great Teacher Award from the SIUE Alumni Association, and he is an Executive Producer for the Science Moms documentary.