Table of Contents

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES RELATED TO COMPETENT CLINICAL AND RESEARCH PRACTICE.

Chapter 1: Empirically Supported Treatments for Children and Adolescents: Advances Toward Evidence-Based Practice (Thomas H. Ollendick and Neville J. King).

Chapter 2: Developmental Issues in Evidence-Based Practice (Grayson N. Holmbeck, Rachel Neff Greenley, and Elizabeth A. Franks).

Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis in Evidence-Based Practice (Wendy K. Silverman and Lissette M. Saavedra).

Chapter 4: Evaluation Issues in Evidence-Based Practice (Nirbhay N. Singh and Donald P. Oswald).

Chapter 5: Assessment and Treatment of Ethnically Diverse Children and Adolescents (Robi Sonderegger and Paula M. Barrett).

PART II: TREATMENT STATUS FOR SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS.

Chapter 6: Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Jennifer L. Hudson, Alicia A. Hughes, and Philip C. Kendall).

Chapter 7: Treatment of SAD and Panic Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Sara G. Mattis and Donna B. Pincus).

Chapter 8: Treatment of Social Phobia in Children and Adolescents (Tracy L. Morris).

Chapter 9: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence: Description and Treatment (Paula M. Barrett, Lara Healy-Farrell, John Piacentini, and John March).

Chapter 10: Treatment of PTSD in Children and Adolescents (Sean Perrin, Patrick Smith, and William Yule).

Chapter 11: Treatment of School Refusal (David Heyne and Neville J. King).

Chapter 12: Treatment of Specific Phobia in Children and Adolescents (Thomas H. Ollendick, Thompson E. Davis III, and Peter Muris).

Chapter 13: Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents (Laura D. Seligman, Amanda B. Goza, and Thomas H. Ollendick).

Chapter 14: Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Holly Barrett Waldron and Sheryl Kern-Jones).

Chapter 15: Treatment of ADHD in Children and Adolescents (Karen C.Wells).

Chapter 16: Treatment of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Ross W. Greene, J. Stuart Ablon, Jennifer C. Goring, Vanessa Fazio, and Lauren R. Morse).

Chapter 17: Treatment of Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents (Robert J. McMahon and Julie S. Kotler).

PART III: PREVENTION INITIATIVES FOR SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS.

Chapter 18: Prevention of Childhood Anxiety and Depression (Paula M. Barrett and Cynthia M. Turner).

Chapter 19: Prevention of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Ronald J. Prinz and Jean E. Dumas).

Chapter 20: Using the Triple P System of Intervention to Prevent Behavioural Problems in Children and Adolescents (Matthew R. Sanders, Carol Markie-Dadds, Karen M.T. Turner, and Alan Ralph).

Chapter 21: Prevention of Substance Abuse in Children and Adolescents (Cecilia A. Essau).

Index.

About the Author

Paula M. Barrett is the editor of Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents: Prevention and Treatment, published by Wiley.

Thomas H. Ollendick is University Distinguished Professor in Clinical Psychology and Director of the Child Study Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is the author or co-author of over 300 research publications, 75 book chapters, and 25 books.