ABSTRACT
Cognitive-behavioral approaches are among the most widely used in assessment and treatment efforts with children, and their popularity has increased because of mounting pressures to provide services to youth more rapidly and efficiently. Diverse approaches may be characterized as cognitive-behavioral, with some focused primarily on modification of overt behavior such as parent-training in child behavior management, others focused mainly on modifying “inner characteristics” of the child such as changing “irrational” thoughts, and many others involving a combination of strategies focused on overt and covert behaviors. This chapter provides a brief review of the behavioral, and cognitive science underpinnings of cognitive-behavioral therapies, followed by a description of techniques, with illustrative case studies.
