Special Issue Spotter: Evidence-based psychosocial treatments for children and adolescents: ten year review

Just noticed that the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology’s January 2008 issue was a special edition. In this edition, they provide a ten-year update on evidence based psychosocial treatments for a range of child and adolescent presentations including: anxiety, autism, disruptive behaviour, eating disorder, problems in ethnic minorities, OCD, substance abuse and trauma. [...]

How does CBT for anxious children work?

One of the current challenges for clinical researchers evaluating treatment outcomes is obtaining evidence relating to the mechanisms of action of therapies (process versus outcome). For example, whilst cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches to anxiety disorders in children have shown considerable efficacy in terms of reducing self-reported anxiety, teacher/parent reported anxiety and observable anxiety symptoms, the [...]