Modular CBT for Children and Adolescents with Depression: A Clinician’s Guide to Individualized Treatment

by Katherine Nguyen Williams PhD

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Author: Katherine Nguyen Williams PhD

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

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ISBN 10: 1626251177
ISBN 13: 978-1626251175

Treating adolescents with depression is challenging. This breakthrough book offers a new, cutting-edge treatment for children and teens with depression using a modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach.

Modular CBT for Depressed Children and Adolescents offers a user-friendly, step-by-step transdiagnostic approach to help you treat youths whose depression presents in diverse ways. This manual offers a compelling rationale for using modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a brief overview of the limitations in community mental health that led to the development of the modular approach, distinctions from standard CBT, and a review of the current research supporting the effectiveness of this treatment.

Guided by innovative research and best practices, this book provides practical steps for creating a personalized treatment approach for each client that incorporates safety needs, symptoms presentation, etiology, cultural and spiritual background, and family factors. You will also find tools to create a pragmatic conceptualization that can be coupled with the specialized treatment interventions of modular CBT.

If you are looking for a detailed, session-by-session treatment program that includes specific instructions on how to use the modular approach to meet the individualized needs of your clients, this book will be your guide.

Review

"One of the most sweeping changes in health care has been a move away from a 'one size fits all' approach to an era of personalized interventions...Nguyen Williams and Crandals' expertly written book provides illuminating, practical, and easy-to-understand guidance for implementing the most effective intervention for conditions affecting over 10 percent of today's youth. It is destined to become a classic in the field."

--Jay N. Giedd, MD, professor & chief of child and adolescent psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; past chief of brain imaging, child and adolescent psychiatry, NIMH

"For therapists working with children and adolescents, Modular CBT for Children and Adolescents with Depression is a must-read...The authors, both of whom are master clinicians, have developed a resource that all therapists should have on their bookshelves. The book is wonderfully organized, easy to read, and written in a conversational style that brings to life the concepts the authors are trying to teach."

--Sandra Brown, PhD, ABPP, clinical professor of psychiatry, and director of the School of Medicine, UCSD/VA Psychology Internship Training Program

"Nguyen Williams and Crandal have filled an important gap in treatment manuals for practicing clinicians working with children and adolescents. This guide presents the essential skills to address depression in a succinct and straightforward manner. I not only practice with a modular approach, but also supervise students to think in this way as well. I recommend this book for clinicians who are both new to and familiar with cognitive behavioral therapy for depression among children and adolescents."

--Hilary Mead, PhD, Seattle Children's Hospital, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

About the Author

Katherine Nguyen Williams, PhD, is a licensed supervising psychologist, professor, and clinical faculty member in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She is clinical training director of child and adolescent psychology, and director of the Anxiety and OCD Clinic (AOC) at Rady Children's Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry in San Diego, CA, where she provides child and adolescent therapy, and specializes in child and adolescent psychological assessments. She is also founding director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Testing (C-CAT). Dr. Nguyen Williams frequently provides clinical trainings, hospital workshops, and university courses on the topics of evidence-based practices, clinical research, and childhood disorders, both locally and nationally. In addition to an active clinical practice, she teaches and clinically supervises psychology students, marriage and family therapists, social workers, psychiatry fellows, and medical students about the application of modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for child and adolescent depression and anxiety.

Brent Crandal, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and research investigator at the Chadwick Center for Children and Families at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, CA. As a clinician, he has offered evidence-based treatments for children, youth, and families in outpatient, inpatient, pediatric, military, and community mental health settings, and supervises and trains therapists. As a research investigator, Dr. Crandal developed strategies to promote family engagement in services, screen and assess mental health needs, and measure treatment outcomes. He also advances access to care for children and youth in California's Child Welfare and Behavioral Health systems as part of the California Assessment, Screening, and Treatment Initiative.