Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety : A Practical Guide.

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- About the Author -- About This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Index of Intervention Programs and General Intervention Strategies, with Descriptions of Purpose and Developmental Level -- List of Specific Treatment Techniques for Depression and Anxiety, Grouped by Program Component -- 1. Understanding Internalizing Problems: Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents -- Introduction and Overview -- What Are Internalizing Disorders? -- Four Types of Internalizing Problems -- Overlap of Internalizing Problems -- Students with Internalizing Problems: Four Vignettes -- Concluding Comments -- 2. How Internalizing Problems Develop and Are Maintained -- Introduction and Overview -- Development of Internalizing Problems -- Do Specific Influences Require Specific Interventions? -- The Course of Internalizing Problems: Stability and Persistence -- Consequences of Internalizing Problems -- Complications: Sorting Out Related Problems -- Concluding Comments -- 3. Guidelines for Assessment and Intervention Planning -- Introduction and Overview -- What Are the Purposes of Assessment? -- A Model for Designing Assessments -- Recommended Assessment Methods -- Linking Assessment to Intervention -- From Assessment to Treatment Planning -- Assessment, Intervention, and Systems: The "Triangle of Support" -- Concluding Comments -- 4. Social and Emotional Learning: An Important Tool for Promoting Mental Health -- Introduction and Overview -- What Is SEL? -- An Example of an SEL Curriculum: Strong Kids -- Lesson Overview for Strong Kids: Grades 3-5 -- Practical Suggestions for Using SEL Programs in Schools -- Concluding Comments -- 5. Comprehensive Intervention Programs for Depression -- Introduction and Overview -- Four Comprehensive Intervention Programs -- Which Program Is Best?.

Modifying or Designing Your Own Comprehensive Treatment Program for Depression -- Concluding Comments -- 6. Changing Thoughts and Beliefs: Cognitive Therapy Interventions for Depression -- Introduction and Overview -- Cognitive Therapy for Depression: An Introduction -- Step 1. Developing Awareness of Emotional Variability -- Step 2. Detecting Automatic Thoughts and Identifying Beliefs -- Step 3. Evaluating Automatic Thoughts and Beliefs -- Step 4. Changing Negative Automatic Thoughts and Maladaptive Beliefs -- Concluding Comments -- 7. Changing Thoughts and Beliefs: Rational-Emotive Therapy, Attribution Retraining, Learned Optimism, and Journal-Writing Strategies -- Introduction and Overview -- Disputing Irrational Thoughts: The RET Approach -- Self-Monitoring and Self-Control Training -- Attribution Retraining and Learning to Be Optimistic -- Writing It Down: Journal Writing as an Intervention Tool -- Concluding Comments -- 8. Other Strategies for Depression -- Introduction and Overview -- Behavioral Interventions for Depression -- Emotional Education -- Interpersonal Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution Training -- Social Skills Training -- Mindfulness Approaches -- Concluding Comments -- 9. Behavioral Treatments for Anxiety: Systematic Desensitization and Other Techniques -- Introduction and Overview -- Overview of Systematic Desensitization -- Other Behavioral Interventions -- Concluding Comments -- 10. Skills Training and Other Treatments for Anxiety -- Introduction and Overview -- Self-Control Training for Anxiety -- Self-Instructional Training for Anxiety -- The "Coping Cat" Program and "C.A.T." Project for Anxious Youth: An Innovative, Comprehensive Treatment Approach -- The Transfer-of-Control Approach -- Social Skills Training -- Concluding Comments.

11. Finding More Help: Referral Guidelines for Mental Health Counseling, Medications, and Alternative Treatments -- Introduction and Overview -- Making Referrals for Mental Health Counseling and Medications -- Using Medications to Treat Children's Social and Emotional Problems: Some Basic Issues and Concerns -- Medications for Treatment of Depression -- Medications for Anxiety-Related Problems -- Alternative Interventions -- Concluding Comments -- Appendix: Reproducible Worksheets -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this bestselling guide provides expert information and clear-cut strategies for assessing and treating internalizing problems in school settings. More than 40 specific psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention techniques are detailed, with a focus on approaches that are evidence based, broadly applicable, and easy to implement. Including 26 ready-to-use worksheets, in a large-size format with permission to photocopy, the second edition has been updated throughout to ensure its currency and clinical utility. Coverage of psychiatric medications has been extensively revised with the latest developments and findings. A new chapter addresses prevention-oriented social and emotional learning curricula for the classroom. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.

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