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INTERVENTIONS
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Behavior Therapy
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- Behavioral therapy has been popular for work with youth for many years in the school and home setting. Many pareting books provide information about charts and ways to reinforce children's behaviors to have wanted behaviors occur more often and unwanted behaviors occur less often. There are concerns involved when applying behavior principles when there is uncertainty about the specific diagnostic issues or complicating factors that need to be considered when setting up a sound plan.
Educational and Behavioral Approaches for ADHD: Article
Top resources for Behavioral Approaches:
Article
Cognitive-Behavioral
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- Cognitive-Behavioral approaches were stated with adults and the most reseached and popular approaches have been with anxiety and depression issues. With CBT the clients thinking is the target of evaluation and intervention are geared toward making gradual and measurable progress toward specific goals (e.g., increase ability to handle fears of the dark). Parents usually play an important role in helping their child learn and practice coping skills in CBT. CBT approaches are also very popular for anger control skill building, stress and anxiety management, and working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Excellent example of the CBT approaches for Child Impulsivity. By Martin L. Kutscher, MD: Article Link
Family Therapy
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- Family Therapy gets all members in the family involved. There are many schools of theory and approach to family therapy. Common parts include: getting all members involved, belief that each person needs to be part of the solution and all individual actions impact family fucntioning as a whole. Working on communication skills, re-building trust, balancing alliances, identifying roles, and working to set goals as a family are common.
Wonderful overview and indepth discussion of family therapy approaches and philosophy: Article
Art Therapy
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- Art Therapy is a term that has been used to describe widely varying practices in education, rehabilitation, and psychotherapy. Essentially, Art Therapy is the therapeutic use of art making to promote healing and growth in a professional relationship.
For more information see ArtTherapy.org
Play Therapy
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- There are many schools of theory and approach to play therapy. Common parts include: children's play being symbolic for their inner feelings and experience, play being a natural vehicle to communicate feelings and resolve painful issues. Therapists very in how much the direct the play and topics of interaction and in how much parents may be involved. Play activities are used by many therapists as a way to establish a good working relationship, trust, and understanding of a child's world view.
Association for Play Therapy
Center For Play Therapy addresses Common questions from Parents
Integrated Therapy
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- Integrative therapy approaches combine a variety of different approaches in a strategic way to help address problems or developmental delays. The two types of approaches that integrate multiple approaches of others are useful for cases with attachment issues, trauma, or attachment disorder. These diagnoses and issues often present with a wide range of emotional, relational, behavioral, and physiological issues that make it helpful to draw from a broad range of approaches. Early works in the integrative approaches include Donald B. Keat for Child Multimodal Therapy. Examples for youth psychology in the attachment area include the classic work of Beverly James, Ph.D. in working with attachment and trauma issues and Daniel Hughes, Ph.D. with his integrated therapy approaches for facilitating attachment. These are valuable approaches for clinicians to draw from. Integrative approaches need a very strong support from parents and significant commitment to the therapy process and follow through to be successful.
Daniel A. Hughes Website
Theraplay®
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- Theraplay is a wonderful approach for addressing development issues in children. It focuses on addressing issues through the relationship between parents and child and uses activities to address therapeutic issues and work toward goals. More information should be obtained from The Theraplay® Institute in Chicago Illinois (see www.theraplay.org). The site offers background information on the approach, parent and professional information, conference and training information, and a directory of providers with training or full certification in Theraplay ®. Also see books on Theraplay®.
Official Website of The Theraplay® Institute: Theraplay.org
Books:
Theraplay : Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play -- by Ann M. Jernberg (Author), Phyllis B. Booth
Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy -- by Evangeline Munns (Editor)
Play With Them: Theraplay Groups in the Classroom: A Technique for Professional Who Work With Children -- by Phyllis B. Rubin
Along with other Theraplay Books and Manuals
Group Therapy
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- There are a number of different kinds of group therapy. Groups may be conducted with children only (usually of similar ages) or with parents and children. Groups often have a focused topic such as anger management, depression, adjustment to divorce, anxiety, or social skills. Activities for children's groups are common to help establish a good community, rapport, and learning environment. It is important for children to have both some fun and some challenge in the group setting. Groups often have some structured information and skill building to cover that is set-up each week. There is also room for participants to discuss and grow in understanding and coping skills related to particular challenges that they face.
Because there are so many types of groups Youthpsych.com encourages parents to follow-up with local providers and ask questions they may have. Also read some of their descriptions about group offerings and approaches.
Narrative Therapy
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- Narrative therapies involve the use of writing as a therapeutic tool. Writing is a powerful form of expression and also a way to process issues. Writing can help children and adults to find a story for what they have experienced and write their way to a new way to new and more positive functioning. This is a popular approach for OCD (developed by Dr. John March) and for depression. Writing letters is also helpful for parents in understanding some of their issues related to attachment and relationship building with their adopted children.
EMDR
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- EMDR is a newer treatment for traumatic memories which is becoming more popular in the mental health field. It stands for "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" - but don't worry, you don't have to remember that. In a nutshell, the patient is asked to concentrate on the worst part of the upsetting memory, while moving the eyes back and forth by following the therapist's finger. It's actually a lot more complicated than that, which is why specialized EMDR training is so important.
Individuals who have trouble coping with trauma and loss experiences have a treatment option which can offer hope for relatively quick and lasting relief. EMDR is just one tool to be used by a trained therapist. It is important to work with a therapist that you trust, who will know when to suggest EMDR and when to use other approaches.
For more information see ChildTrauma.com
Social Stories
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- Individuals with autism or other pervasive developmental disorders have deficits in social awareness and understanding. The have deficits and differences in their the ability to think in ways necessary for appropriate social interaction. This can be helped by a technique which is used to help individuals with autism 'read' and understand social situations. This technique, called 'Social Stories,' presents appropriate social behaviors in the form of a story. It was developed by Carol Gray and works to include answers to questions that autistic persons may need to know to interact appropriately with others (for example, answers to who, what, when, where, and why in social situations).
For more information read this Social Stories Article
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