CBT Approaches for Children and Young People: A Practical Case Study Guide

Preface 
1 Introduction: changes in mental health services for children and young people 2 CBT: theory, history and wider influences3 The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  Scale for Children and Young People 

Case Studies 
4 Ann – Depression 5 Carly – Substance misuse6 Charlotte – Type 1 diabetes7 David, Sai and Alan – Home coaching with a preschool child and his parents 8 Eleanor – Anorexia 9 Lily – Obsessive compulsive disorder 10 Jane – Experience as an inpatient at a specialist unit 11 Robert – Cerebral palsy 12 Hannah – Epilepsy13 Sophia – Post-traumatic stress disorder 14 Stephanie – Social anxiety and physical health 

This thought-provoking guide offers clinicians new perspectives on the delivery of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to children and young people through the highly engaging, lively medium of the case study format.

The narrative case studies Alison Coad and Nick Wrycraft present give fresh insights into the ways in which various CBT approaches can be used as the foundation for highly individual treatment programmers. Central to each case is the experience and the voice of the young person and, as appropriate, those who support and care for them.

This inspirational book offers innovative examples of ways in which as a clinician, you can respond to the needs of children and young people, employing evidence-based practice, while simultaneously negotiating the impact of sustained reductions in mental health service resources.