Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety or Sun Protection for Life

Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety

Author: Kenneth W Merrell

"Depression, anxiety, and other internalizing disorders can have severe and lasting consequences for children and adolescents. This book provides clear-cut strategies for addressing these problems creatively and effectively with students in grades K-12. A concise overview of the nature, development, and course of childhood depression and anxiety is delineated, and a comprehensive assessment model is outlined. Chapters then present a wide range of empirically supported interventions that are easy to implement and readily adaptable to diverse settings. Cognitive-behavioral and psychoeducational techniques are described in jargon-free language, and numerous reproducible worksheets are included to facilitate the practitioner's day-to-day work. Other topics covered include currently available psychiatric medications for depression and anxiety, and when and how a psychiatric referral should be made."--BOOK JACKET.

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Merrell (psychology, U. of Iowa) presents strategies for helping students in grades K-12 to overcome depression and anxiety. Aimed at support service professionals who work with at-risk students in school settings, the text describes a variety of intervention techniques. Coverage includes, for example, the development of internalizing problems, linking assessment to intervention, cognitive therapy techniques for depression, behavioral treatments for anxiety, social skills training, and referral guidelines. The volume also includes a section of reproducible worksheets. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	About This Series
	About This Book
	Index of Intervention Programs and General Intervention Strategies, with Descriptions of Purpose and Developmental Level
	List of Specific Treatment Techniques for Depression and Anxiety, Grouped by Program Component
1	Understanding Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents	1
	What Are Internalizing Disorders?	1
	Four Types of Internalizing Disorders	3
	Overlap of Internalizing Problems	11
	Students with Internalizing Problems: Three Case Studies	12
2	How Depression and Anxiety Develop and Are Maintained	17
	Development of Internalizing Problems	18
	Do Specific Influence Require Specific Interventions?	22
	The Course of Internalizing Problems: Stability and Persistence	23
	Consequences of Internalizing Problems	24
	Complications: Sorting Out Related Problems	31
3	Guidelines for Assessment and Intervention Planning	40
	What Are the Purposes of Assessment?	41
	A Model for Designing Assessments	42
	Recommended Assessment Methods	45
	Linking Assessment to Intervention	55
	From Assessment to Treatment Planning	60
4	Comprehensive Intervention Program for Depression	64
	Four Comprehensive Intervention Programs	65
	Which Program Is Best?	75
	Modifying or Designing Your Own Comprehensive Treatment Program for Depression	75
5	Changing Thoughts and Beliefs: Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Depression	82
	Cognitive Therapy for Depression: An Introduction	83
	Step 1: Developing Awareness of Emotional Variability	85
	Step 2: Detecting Automatic Thoughts and Identifying Beliefs	86
	Step 3: Evaluating Automatic Thoughts and Beliefs	90
	Step 4: Changing Negative Automatic Thoughts and Maladaptive Beliefs	96
6	Changing Thoughts and Beliefs: Rational-Emotive Therapy, Attribution Retraining, Learned Optimism, and Journal-Writing Strategies for Depression	102
	Disputing Irrational Thoughts: The RET Approach	103
	Self-Monitoring and Self-Control Training	106
	Attribution Retraining and Learning to Be Optimistic	107
	Writing It Down: Journal Writing as an Intervention Tool	112
7	Behavior Change, Emotional Education, Interpersonal Problem Solving, and Conflict Resolution Strategies for Depression	117
	Behavioral Interventions for Depression	118
	Emotional Education	124
	Interpersonal Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution Training	132
	Social Skills Training	137
8	Behavioral Treatments for Anxiety: Systematic Desensitization	139
	Overview of Systematic Desensitization	140
	Other Behavioral Interventions	151
9	Social Skills Training and Other Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments for Anxiety	157
	Self-Control Training for Anxiety	158
	Self-Instructional Training	159
	The "Coping Cat" Program for Anxious Youth: An Innovative, Comprehensive Treatment Approach	160
	The Transfer of Control Approach	162
	Social Skills Training	164
10	Finding More Help: Referral Guidelines for Mental Health Counseling, Psychiatric Medications, and Alternative Treatments	171
	Making Referrals for Mental Health Counseling and Psychiatric Medications	172
	Using Medications to Treat Children's Social-Emotional Problems: Some Basic Issues and Concerns	177
	Medications for Treatment of Depression	180
	Medications for Anxiety-Related Problems	184
	Alternative Interventions	186
	App.: Reproducible Worksheets	193
	References	223
	Index	227

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