Child and Adolescent Mental Health Arena

Call for Papers - 'Therapeutic Work with Children'

The British Journal of Guidance and Counselling has issued a call for papers for a symposium on 'Therapeutic Work with Children'.

They would welcome original contributions in this area and those contributions could be in many forms. For example: single case studies, overviews of methods of working, quantitative or qualitative research carried out by practitioners or academics.

The deadline for submissions is 30th September 2008.

download the Call For Papers (PDF file) for more information

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Choosing to Heal

Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children

The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate.

Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this vulnerable population.

Choosing to Heal breaks new ground as the first resource to use Reality Therapy and Choice Therapy© in focusing on the treatment of sexually abused children...

find out more about Choosing to Heal / order online

Child Sexual Abuse

Disclosure, Delay, and Denial

This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings.

Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international backgrounds offer critical commentary on these previously unpublished findings gathered from both field and laboratory research.

Cross-cultural, clinical, and multi-disciplinary perspectives are provided. The goal is to learn more about why children frequently remain silent about their abuse, deny it, or if they do disclose, do so belatedly and incompletely, often recanting their allegations over time...

find out more about Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial / order online

American Counseling Association in Detroit, Annual Meeting 2007

This year's location in Detroit drew over 3,000 attendees to the ACA convention, and Routledge was pleased to be on hand to welcome ACA members as well as visitors from across the border in nearby Ontario, Canada.

This year Lawrence Erlbaum Associates joined Routledge under the Taylor & Francis group, and we were glad to represent this wonderful addition to our program.

Congratulations to Don Dinkmeyer, Jr. and Jon Carlson (pictured here), on receiving the award for Publication of the Year from ACES for Consultation: Creating School Based Interventions, 3rd Edition.

read more about the conference (plus photos!)

Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research and Management

by Claudio Cepeda

Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents demystifies the interviewing diagnostic process of psychosis in children and adolescents and provides a valuable resource for treatment.

Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child's imagination. There has been a professional reluctance to acknowledge that children could suffer from severe psychotic disorders akin to adult subjects, and that these symptoms merit a comprehensive and systematic evaluation.

This book offers a useful guide to the interviewing process, a review of differential diagnosis, and an overview on psychosocial interventions. It deals also with the use of antipsychotic drugs, beginning with issues related to their use in the field, followed by a review of literature on the subject, atypical side effects, and implementation throughout treatment.

The book fills a vacuum in the field of child and adolescent psychosis, and will have a broad appeal and interest to general psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, to child and adolescent psychiatrists, and many other mental health professionals working with disturbed children and adolescents.

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Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)

by Garry L. Landreth, Ed. D. and Sue C. Bratton, Ph.D.

The parent-child bond holds much more emotional significance than the relationship between a therapist and a child.

As filial therapy professionals, Landreth and Bratton maintain that a parent acting as an agent for change in place of a therapist can result in significant therapeutic gains.

Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) offers a survey of the historical and theoretical development of the filial therapy approach and presents an overview of filial therapy training and then filial therapy processes. The book also includes a transcript of an actual session, answers to common questions raised by parents, children, and therapists, as well as additional resources and research summaries.

The essential companion volume Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Treatment Manual contains four major sections: Therapist Notebook, Study Guide, Parent Notebook, and Training Resources. An accompanying CD-Rom allows the therapist to print the necessary training materials for ease of reproduction and enhanced usability.

• more information about Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model
• more information about Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Treatment Manual: A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model for Training Parents