What Works with Children and Adolescents?: A Critical Review of Psychological Interventions with Children, Adolescents and their Families

What Works with Children and Adolescents? fulfills the need for a concise, empirically-based study of the types of psychological treatments that may be effective for common psychological problems in childhood and adolescence. Providing a solid foundation for evidence-based practice in the treatment of children and adolescents, the book offers evidence form over 150 rigorously conducted research trials. Examining problems which are of central concern to practicing clinicians- including child abuse, enuresis and encopresis, ADHD, childhood conduct problems, adolescent violence, drug abuse, anxiety and depression, anorexia and bulimia nervosa, pediatric pain, and post-divorce adjustment problems-it also highlights priority areas for future research on the treatment of children and adolescents' psychological problems.