Most interventions for at-risk youth are group based. Yet, research indicates that young
people often learn to become deviant by interacting with deviant peers. In this important …

Specifiable theory can guide the design, implementation, and evaluation of treatments, and
treatment programs for children and adolescents are no exception. Theory provides proper …

Science has fostered renewed optimism in mental health practice over the last decade
through advances in the development of treatment supported by research (Kazdin and …

Antecedentes: los tratamientos psicológicos han mostrado su efi cacia, efectividad y efi
ciencia para el abordaje de los trastornos mentales; no obstante, considerando el …

This study examined the impact of the Family Check‐Up (FCU) and linked intervention
services on reducing health‐risk behaviors and promoting social adaptation among middle …

This study evaluated the Penn Resiliency Program's effectiveness in preventing depression
when delivered by therapists in a primary care setting. Two-hundred and seventy-one 11 …

Research has much to offer art therapy. It can generate new knowledge about the discipline,
its theories and practices and really progress its recognition as an effective and innovative …

This study identified middle school students who were less than delighted with their lives
(reported life satisfaction scores between 1 and 6 on a 7-point scale), and attempted to …

Background Psychotherapy for children and adolescents (herein,'youths') has grown more
precise and focused over the decades, shifting toward empirically supported treatments …

For many years psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies have been considered to lack
a credible evidence-base and have consistently failed to appear in lists of 'empirically …