Coping Power Child Group Program Facilitator Guide

John E. Lochman, PhD, ABPP, is Saxon Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The University of Alabama, where he also is Senior Fellow at the Alabama Life Research Institute, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Youth Development and Intervention. Dr. Lochman is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Prevention Research, and the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and he has received distinguished career awards from the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and the American Board for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Lochman has more than 500 publications on social cognition, emotion regulation, peer relations, family process, and intervention and prevention research with children with aggressive behavior problems, including outcome research on the Coping Power intervention. His collaborative Coping Power research in the past 20 years has focused on effectiveness and implementation studies of Coping Power, on studies of adaptation and of Coping Power for different populations and optimization of key intervention mechanisms, on intervention process issues that affect Coping Power outcomes, and on cross-over effects of Coping Power on other outcomes including internalizing outcomes and on suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

Karen C. Wells, PhD is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director Emeritus of the Family Studies Program and Clinic at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Throughout her career she has been actively involved in research in the development and treatment of child and adolescent psychological disorders (including ADHD, oppositional defiant disorders, depression, and adolescent suicidality) and especially in family and parenting factors in etiology and treatment. With John Lochman, she contributed to the development of the Coping Power Program and to research on its evaluation and application. She is currently retired and living in North Carolina.

Lisa A. Lenhart, PhD, is the founder and owner of the private practice Lisa A. Lenhart, PhD LLC, which was founded in 2013, and is a child clinical psychologist who has provided diagnostic and therapeutic services to children and families for more than 30 years. She provides comprehensive evaluations to children and adolescents, in addition to continuing to provide therapeutic services to individuals with a variety of difficulties, using research-based assessment and treatment models to help individuals with a variety of difficulties function more effectively in life. Prior to that, she was the senior psychologist in the Testing and Tutoring Service at The Treatment and Learning Centers (TLC) in Maryland, where she oversaw the testing department at TLC for approximately 10 years, ensuring the clinical quality of all psychological evaluations and treatment conducted. She has extensive supervision experience, both of professionals and students, and consults with other professionals in an ongoing manner. She was the project coordinator for the Coping Power Program for three years, and continues to implement the strategies developed in this program in her work with children and families.

Chapter 1: Introductory Information for Child Group Facilitators
Chapter 2 : What Is Coping Power Based On?
Chapter 3: Coping Power Program and Alternative Treatments
Chapter 4: Child Group Logistics
Chapter 5: Ways to Overcome Obstacles With Intervention Groups for Children With Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior
Chapter 6: Individually Delivered Coping Power
Chapter 7 : Concise Coping Power - 24 Sessions

Coping Power Child Program Year One

Session 1: Group Structure and Behavioral Goal Setting Procedure
Session 2: Goal Setting - Part I
Session 3: Goal Setting - Part II
Session 4: Organizational and Study Skills
Session 5: Awareness of Feelings and Physiological Arousal Related to Anger - Part I
Session 6: Awareness of Feelings and Physiological Arousal Related to Anger - Part II
Session 7: Anger Coping and Self-Control
Session 8: Using Self-Statements for Anger Coping - Part I
Session 9: Using Self-Statements for Anger Coping - Part II
Session 10: Using Self-Statements for Anger Coping - Part III
Session 11: Relaxation and Overcoming Barriers to Self-Control
Session 12: Perspective Taking - Part I
Session 13: Perspective Taking - Part II
Session 14: Perspective Taking - Part III
Session 15: Perspective Taking and Problem Solving
Session 16: Social Problem Solving - Part I
Session 17: Social Problem Solving - Part II
Session 18: Social Problem Solving - Part III
Session 19: Social Problem Solving - Part IV
Session 20: Group Creates Video Recording - Part I
Session 21: Group Creates Video Recording - Part II
Session 22: Group Creates Video Recording - Part III

Coping Power Child Program Year Two

Session 23: Review From Previous Year
Session 24: Organizational and Study Skills Review
Session 25: Application of Social Problem Solving to Teacher Conflict
Session 26: Application of Social Problem Solving to Both Making Friends and Being Friends With Others