Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with Children and Adolescents II

Recommended Prerequisites

It is advisable that the students have already completed the following units: Behaviour Modification, Cognitive Models in Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology I and II, Developmental Psychology I and II, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies with Children and Adolescents I.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and interactive methods. Practical activities: participant modelling techniques, role playing, case analysis and discussion, and feedback.

Learning Outcomes

This course intends to continue the pedagogic process initiated in the 1st semester with CBTCAI, promoting knowledge regarding specific clinical disorders that are most prevalent in childhood and adolescence, namely, their clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, epidemiological data and comprehension and intervention models..

Learning outcomes

Students must:

1. have the knowledge that allows them to reflect about the developments of the main cognitive-behavioral paradigms and models in the therapy of children and adolescents;
2. know the most prevalent disorders in childhood and adolescence, in terms of clinical description, classification, epidemiology, comorbidity and aetiology; conceptualize the clinical cases, that allow them to diagnose,
3. assess and develop therapeutic strategies, according to cognitive-behavioral models.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Revision of the most important learning paradigms and conceptual models of Cognitive-Cognitive Therapy.
2. Therapeutic strategies based on the models mentioned, applied to children and adolescents.
3. Clinical disorders in childhood and adolescence: clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, epidemiological data, conceptual models and therapeutic strategies; Anxiety Disorders (e.g., Separation Anxiety, School Phobia, Social Phobia, Panic Disorder), Elimination Disorders (e.g., Enuresis and Encopresis).

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Paula Soares Matos

Assessment Methods

Periodic
Research work: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

- American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association.

 

- Essau, C. A. & Petermann, F. (Ed.) (2001). Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

 

- Graham, P. (Ed.), (2005). Cognitive behaviour therapy for children and families. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

- Hill, J. & Maughan, B. (Ed.) (2001). Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

- Orvaschel, H., Faust, J. & Hersen, M. (Eds.) (2001). Handbook of conceptualization and treatment of child psychopathology. Amsterdam: Pergamon.

 

-Weisz, J. R., & Kazdin, A. E. (Ed.) (2010). Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.