Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in Children and Adolescents I

Recommended Prerequisites

 It is advisable that the students have prior background knowledge in the fields of Psychopahtology and Clinical and Health Psychology. It is also advisable that students have taken the course of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in 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.Brief 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, Fobia à Escola, Social Anxiety Disorder), Elimination Disorders (e.g., Enuresis and Encopresis).

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Paula Soares Matos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 35.0%
Synthesis work: 65.0%

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: Guilford Press.

 

Graham, P., & Reynolds, S. (2013). Cognitive behaviour therapy for children and families (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

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: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

 

Mash, E. J., & Barkley, R. A. (2014). Child psychopathology (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications.

 

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: John Wiley & Sons Inc.    

 

Weisz, J. R., & Kazdin, A. E.(Ed.) (2017). Evidence-based psychotherapies for children and adolescents. New York: Guilford Press.