Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice [Paperback]

John B. Arden (Author), Lloyd Linford (Author)

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Publication Date: November 17, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0470138912 | ISBN-13: 978-0470138915 | Edition: 1

Designed for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice is a simple but powerful primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience into an evidence-based mental health practice. Written for counselors, social workers, psychologists, and graduate students, this new treatment approach focuses on the most common disorders facing children and adolescents, taking into account the uniqueness of each client, while preserving the requirements of standardized care under evidence-based practice.

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An insightful and practical guide that looks at the role neuroscience plays as it relates to the treatment of childhood and adolescent disorders

Written in an accessible way, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice shows clinicians how they can become more effective therapists by understanding and applying recent findings about the brain in their work with children and adolescents. The result is a new kind of therapy, one that takes into account both the uniqueness of each child or adolescent, as well as the requirements of standardized care as recommended by evidence-based practice—offering mental health professionals advice they can put into practice immediately.

Relying on research in developmental neurobiology, brain imaging, and evidence-based psychotherapeutic practices, the authors, experts in both neuroscience and evidence-based practice, cover:

• The importance of understanding how the brain develops and functions in doing the actual work of child and adolescent psychotherapy

• Recent neuroscientific discoveries and how these can be integrated into evidence-based interventions to create uniquely effective treatments

• Evidence-based nterventions for the most common childhood and adolescent disorders, such as ADHD, OCD,ʡnd depression

• Tips on helping children and adolescents re-regulate such neurodynamically important processes as sleep and the mind-body relationship

Incorporating useful vignettes that illustrate how to include these new treatments into effective client care, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice explains the concept of brain-based therapy in a succinct and easy-to-grasp way, enabling therapists to make practical sense of neuroscience and how it can work within their daily practice.

About the Author

JOHN B. ARDEN, PhD, is the Director of Training for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers for the Northern California Region. In his capacity, he oversees the internships and postdoctoral psychology residencies in twenty-two medical centers. He is the author of nine other books.

LLOYD LINFORD, PhD, serves as Chair-man of Psychiatry and Chemical Depen-dency Best Practices for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California healthcare system, is a clinical psychologist at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, and is in private practice in Oakland, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 17, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470138912
• ISBN-13: 978-0470138915
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Future of Talking Cures, January 29, 2009

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Gerard Donnellan (Lexington, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice (Paperback)

In their book, Brain Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice, Linford and Arden present a compelling case not only for the future directions of psychotherapy and the "talking cures" but for many other professional activities.

But first, why is this so compelling? Linford and Arden systematically present and explore the implications of a growing knowledge base for their assumptions that the future of these talking cures is multidimensional: understanding neurophysiologic substrates and the behavioral manifestations of brain activities, for example, puts therapists of all stripes in a different arena as they practice their craft. Therapists, then, will not only believe they have a deep and meaningful impact on a person's life, but will have the scientific research and thoughtful reasoning to back it up. Mental health practitioners will no longer have to "take a stand" or make a choice about their allegiances on "how therapy works", which has been so divisive and unfriendly to reasoned dialogue.

The evidence, as Linford and Arden present it, is coming into focus and is beginning to influence all practitioners, e.g. psychoanalysts are paying much closer attention to the research from infant and child development, as well as behavioral neurology, genetics, neurochemistry and neuroradiology.

Clearly this book, and its companion, Brain-Based Therapy with Adults, is a significant contribution to the literature in many professional fields on the influence of brain activity on the entire range of human behavior. This is a professional book and not one aimed at the general reader, for it demands attention and study to reap the rewards of their work.

It is great pleasure to endorse this work and I look forward to further work by these authors.

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and Inspiring, December 4, 2008

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Ruza Ohan, Ph.D (Mountain View, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice (Paperback)

Both books provide current, informative and inspiring information about recent advances in brain research and implications for clinical psychology practice.