ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book by investigating ideas for future directions for FELT. Specifically, this book used anxiety as the prime example for the FELT program, and the etiological model, treatment targets, and story stem analyses were based on clinical research about anxiety. However, FELT can easily be adapted to address other childhood clinical issues. This chapter suggests a template for adapting FELT to address other childhood concerns, using depression as an example. The chapter outlines the clinical presentation of depressed affect in young, preschool- or elementary-aged children, and it reviews some of the psychoanalytic formulations key to understanding depression, within the psychodynamic needs framework inherent to FELT. It outlines a basic research plan for adapting FELT to depression, and this same plan can be applied to many other childhood conditions as well.
