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

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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.

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