Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment and Case Examples

For this review, the author uses the guidelines of the American Psychological Association's Task Force of the Society of Clinical Psychology (1995), which rates therapies as well-established or probably efficacious according to the number and quality of supportive studies, the use of a manual, the specification of the sample, and the support by 2 or more investigators or research teams. The studies reviewed in this book were selected from the 350 studies meeting methodological requirements for inclusion in the above-mentioned metaanlysis, meeting criteria of the Task Force as either well established or probably efficacious, and further meeting other criteria imposed by the author, such as addressing existing, compared with anticipated, psychological dysfunctio; treating a specific problem, compared with general harm or trauma; and focusing on primary behavioural and mental problems, compared with medical or physical problems.