Summary This lively, practical book offers a complete guide to doing cognitive therapy with children and adolescents. Within a clear theoretical framework, the authors describe how to adapt cognitive therapy principles and procedures to the unique needs of distressed children and their parents. The book starts with the fundamentals, demonstrating a clear-cut yet flexible approach to case conceptualization and treatment planning. Detailed guidelines are then presented to help the clinician introduce cognitive therapy to children and families; identify problems, feelings, and thoughts; craft Socratic dialogues; design homework assignments; and implement a range of traditional and creative interventions. Concluding chapters focus explicitly on techniques for managing depression, anxiety, and disruptive behavior in youth. Devoting special attention to cultural diversity issues, the book is filled with illustrative case examples and session vignettes. Included are over a dozen useful reproducible worksheets and forms. -from the publisher's website Table of Contents 1. Introduction
2. Case Conceptualization
3. Collaborative Empiricism and Guided Discovery
4. Session Structure
5. Introducing the Treatment Model and Identifying Problems
6. Identifying and Connecting Thoughts and Feelings
7. Therapeutic Socratic Dialogues
8. Commonly Used Cognitive and Behavioral Techniques
9. Creative Applications of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
10. Homework
11. Working with Depressed Children and Adolescents
12. Working with Anxious Children and Adolescents
13. Working with Disruptive Children and Adolescents
14. Working with Parents | 
