Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies with Children and Adolescents II

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01740959
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

It is advisable that the students have already completed the following courses: Behavior Modification, Behavioural and Cognitive Models, Psychopathology I and II, Developmental Psychology I and II, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies with Children and Adolescents I.

Teaching Methods

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

Learning Outcomes

Objectives

To continue the pedagogic process initiated in the first semester with TCCCA-I, promoting knowledge regarding most prevalent clinical disorders in childhood and adolescence, namely, their clinical presentation, diagnostic criteria, epidemiological data, and CBT assessment, conceptualization and intervention, since more classical CBT approaches to 3rd wave therapies. It is also intended to build the essential skills to develop assessment processes, diagnose, assess, develop cognitive-behavioral case formulations and the respective intervention strategies, highlighting specific issues of the expression of these diagnosis in childhood and adolescents.

Learning outcomes

Students must acquire theoretical and practical knowledge on the most prevalent disorders in childhood and adolescence, that allow them to diagnose, assess, conceptualize and develop therapeutic protocols, 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 referred models and 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, Social Phobia), Elimination Disorders (e.g., Enuresis and Encopresis).

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria do Céu Teixeira Salvador

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Friedberg, R. D., & McClure, J. M. (2015). Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents: The Nuts and Bolts (2nd ed.). New York, United States: Guilford Press.

 

- Graham, P., & Reynolds, S. (2013). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

- Greco, L. A. & Hayes, S. (2008). Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications

- Jongsma, A. E., Peterson, L. M., McInnis, W. P., Bruce, T. J. (2014). The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates (5th ed.). New York, United States: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

 

- Stallard, P. (2009). Anxiety: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People. London: Routledge.

 

- Shapiro, J. P. (2015). Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art (2nd ed.). New York, United States: John Wiley & Sons Inc.