Main description:

Most courses in counseling, social work, therapy, and clinical psychology programs lump clinical work with "children and adolescents" together into a single unit while the social, emotional, physical, and neurobiological development of youth is often only a portion of a development course that covers the entire human lifespan. The consequence is twofold: department chairs, accrediting agencies, administrators, and faculty are tasked with covering too much content in
too few course hours; and graduate students and beginning practitioners are woefully unprepared for working with difficult populations, including teenagers and young adults. Evidence-Based Psychotherapy with Adolescents helps new clinicians working in any treatment setting learn how to conduct
psychotherapy with adolescents from a place of understanding and empathy. In addition to addressing adolescent development, psychological theories in practice, neurobiology of adolescents, clinical assessment, and evidence-based treatment approaches for a range of common mental health concerns, the text explains how to build therapeutic alliances with adolescent clients and work with vulnerable populations commonly seen in treatment. A complete guide that empowers readers with the insight and
tools necessary to support adolescents as they progress towards adulthood, this book effectively builds the core skill sets of students and new clinicians in social work, psychology, psychiatry, and marriage and family therapy.

Contents:

SECTION I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Theory for Working with Adolescents
Chapter 3. Neurobiology of Adolescents and Its Implications for Treatment
Chapter 4. Assessment in Adolescent Treatment
Chapter 5. Building Therapeutic Alliance with Adolescents

SECTION II. Treating Mental Health Issues
Chapter 6. Evidence-Based Interventions for Adolescent Anxiety
Chapter 7. Evidence-Based Interventions for Adolescent Depression
Chapter 8. Evidence-Based Interventions for Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Chapter 9. Evidence-Based Interventions for Traumatized Adolescents
Chapter 10. Evidence-Based Interventions for Substance-Abusing Adolescents

SECTION III: Special Populations and Approaches
Chapter 11. Working with LGBTQ Adolescents
Chapter 12. Working with Adopted Adolescents
Chapter 13.Family Therapy with Adolescents