Treating Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Core Techniques and Strategies

370 Pages·2016·4.81 MB·English

by  Douglas W. Nangle PhD

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THE GUILFORD PRESS
TreaTing inTernalizing DisorDers
in ChilDren anD aDolesCenTs

Treating
internalizing
Disorders in
Children and
adolescents
Core Techniques and Strategies
Douglas W. Nangle, David J. Hansen,
Rachel L. Grover, Julie Newman Kingery,
Cynthia Suveg, and Contributors
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children and families who have been our clients
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about the authors
Douglas W. Nangle, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Doctoral
Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Maine. He has pub-
lished extensively in the areas of social skills assessment and treatment,
child and adolescent peer relations, and cognitive-behavioral treat-
ments. An award- winning teacher and mentor, he has advised, taught,
and provided clinical supervision for doctoral students for more than
20 years.
David J. Hansen, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, Director of the Clin-
ical Psychology Training Program, and Director of the Center for Brain,
Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln. His pri-
mary research area is child maltreatment (sexual abuse, physical abuse,
and neglect), including assessment and intervention with victims and
families, and the consequences and prevention of maltreatment.
Rachel L. Grover, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at Loyola
University Maryland, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate
courses in child development, research methods, and child therapy.
She conducts research on child anxiety as well as social competence in
the teen and emerging adulthood years.
Julie Newman Kingery, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at
Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Her research
examines the role of peer relationships as predictors of psychologi-
cal and academic adjustment, particularly across the middle school
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transition, as well as factors related to the etiology and maintenance of
anxiety in youth. She also has a particular interest in the developmen-
tally sensitive implementation of cognitive- behavioral therapy with
children and adolescents.
Cynthia Suveg, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Associ-
ate Director of Clinical Training in the Clinical Doctoral Program at
the University of Georgia. Her research broadly examines the role of
emotion- regulation processes in child adjustment.
Contributors
Matthew W. Kirkhart, PhD, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Depart-
ment of Psychology at Loyola University Maryland. His current research
focuses on the cognitive processes involved with second- language acquisi-
tion and the identification of psychological factors associated with success-
ful adaptation to chronic medical conditions.
Amber A. Martinson, PhD, is a medical psychologist at the VA Salt Lake City
Health Care System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Her research
interests include biological correlates of stress, sexual trauma, and chronic
pain. Her clinical focus is on veterans with comorbid mental and medical
conditions, including chronic pain, dementia, and life- limiting illness.
Diana Morelen, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in Clinical Child Psychology at
the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses
on the origins of children’s emotion- related competencies and the role of
these competencies in children’s mental health. Dr. Morelen is interested in
familial and environmental processes that influence and shape children’s
development of emotion regulatory processes, how emotion development
occurs within diverse contexts, and how emotional processes help explain
the intergenerational transmission of risk from parental to child psychopa-
thology.
Matthew P. Mychailyszyn, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tow-
son University. He is a licensed psychologist who conducts his clinical work
at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Mychailyszyn’s clini-
cal and research interests focus on issues with pediatric feeding disorders
as well as cognitive- behavioral therapy and parent training to address inter-
nalizing disorders and disruptive behaviors in youth.
Jason M. Prenoveau, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associ-
ate Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Maryland. His research
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focuses on the etiology, phenomenology, and treatment of disorders of anxi-
ety and fear.
Jennifer Sauvé, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in Child and Family Psychology
at the University of Southern California University Center for Excellence
in Developmental Disabilities/Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Her major
interests include social relationships, anxiety, and adjustment among chil-
dren and adolescents.
Alayna Schreier, MA, is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at the
University of Nebraska– Lincoln. Her research interests include prevention
and intervention for at-risk and maltreating families, early childhood inter-
vention programs, and policy related to child welfare.
Kristel Thomassin, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology
at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on children’s emotional
development, including the ways in which the family system contributes
to children’s development of adaptive emotion skills and the role of these
emotion skills in child psychopathology. Dr. Thomassin seeks to translate
this knowledge to the clinical care context as a means of gaining insight
into how treatment approaches might be adapted to maximize therapeutic
outcomes for youth.
Tiffany West, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Her research and
clinical interests are in the field of childhood traumatic stress and disrup-
tive behavior disorders.
Monica R. Whitehead, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at
the University of Georgia. Her research interests include social and emo-
tional functioning of anxious youth and examining factors related to the
therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome.