Child & Adolescent

Resources have primarily been categorised along 'disorder' lines. Generic child resources are also presented here.

Assessment

Depression Scale for Children  Download from the Centre for Epidemiological Studies (0.1MB)

Spence Children's Anxiety Scale  Download from Dr Spence's website (0.1MB) Link to Dr Spence's website for more information about scoring and administration

Interventions

Cognitive / Behavioural

Routledge CBT resources to accompany their book series 

 Appendices for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children (0.2MB)

 Materials and Worksheets for Anxiety (0.6MB)

 Handouts for Eating Disorders (2.0MB)

 Materials and worksheets for Depression (0.2MB)

Building self-esteem in children  Download from Weber.ed (0.4MB)

Nurturing children's self-esteem (includes exercises)  Download from Ohioline.osu.edu (0.3MB)

Cartoon strips - plot out events, finish the story with alternative endings

Being a team of detectives (Stallard, 2002) - how could we search for clues as to what is happening here?

Parent as co-therapist - mum / dad / teacher as part of the army of soldiers against the enemy (problem)

Systemic / Family

Change balloons (a solution-focussed approach) - what is the goal? who can help to get there? what could each person start, stop, or keep doing to help?

Externalising (White & Epston, 1990) - the problem as separate from the person. Client to give the problem a name. What influence does (name) have on you / your relationships? "What happened to the family when (problem) came to visit?"

Internalised other interviewing (Burnham, 2000) - relational empathy - i.e. interview the mother in the mind of the child.