Brain-based Therapy With Children and Adolescents: Evidence-based Treatment for Everyday Practice

by John B. Arden (Kaiser Permanente, Vallejo, CA ); Lloyd Linford (Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA )

• ISBN13: 9780470466216
• ISBN10: 0470466219
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Designed for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice is a simple but powerful primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience into an evidence-based mental health practice. Written for counselors, social workers, psychologists, and graduate students, this new treatment approach focuses on the most common disorders facing children and adolescents, taking into account the uniqueness of each client, while preserving the requirements of standardized care under evidence-based practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.Preface.1 Changing and Staying the Same.2 Temperament and Neurodynamics.3 Attachment and Subjectivity.4 Rupture and Repair in Caregiving Relationships.5 Adolescence.6 Working from the BASE.7 Disorders of Attention and Self-Regulation.8 Anxiety in Children and Adolescents.9 Depression in Children and Adolescents.Appendix: Primer on the Brain.References.Author Index.Subject Index.