ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) from both a procedural and empirical point of view and promotes the increased use of CBT with the problems for which there is demonstrated efficacy. Learning becomes important not only as it relates to environmental consequences but also as it relates to the information processing occurring within the individual; thus CBT remains consistent with both information-processing and social learning theories. Concerning psychopathology and its treatment, the CB approach views psychological problems as stemming primarily from behavioural and cognitive antecedents. Anxiety disorders appear to be a relatively common form of psychopathology among children and adolescents. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology observed in children and adolescents following traumatic events including death, fires, natural disasters, and physical or sexual abuse, and treatment approaches have been varied. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represents one of the common reasons for a child's referral to a clinic or school psychologist, affecting approximately 3 to 5" of children.
