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For today's youth, cyberbullying includes bullying through email, instant messaging, chat rooms, websites, or messages or images sent to cell phones (Schneider et al., 2012). Anonymous identities of bullies complicate and set back the ...
Widely regarded as the definitive clinical reference and text in the field, this authoritative volume presents effective cognitive-behavioral approaches for treating frequently encountered child and adolescent disorders.
After the child or teen has begun to attain some distance from the trauma, and to put it clearly in the past, ... Therefore, the opportunity to play or engage in creative activities such as art facilitates the symbolic expression of ...
Similar pressures face community-based social workers and other professionals working with troubled children. Looked-after children often cause the most concern because of the difficulty of finding appropriate substitute family care ...
Group Therapy With Children and Adolescents explores a major treatment modality often used with adult populations but rarely considered for child and adolescent treatments. With contributions from experts in the...
"This collection addresses the multiple sources of wounding of children and teens in contemporary life.
One neurofeedback videogame is called MindLight, and it is intended to reduce anxiety in youth. Here is how MindLight is described and some of its claims: MindLight incorporates several evidence-based strategies including relaxation and ...
In addition, a unique aspect of this text is its focus on neuroscience, the developing brain, and the impact of early childhood trauma on development.