Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Disruptive Child and Adolescent Behavior DVD [Mixed media product]

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This DVD helps address the challenges many practitioners face in assimilating results from psychotherapy research into their treatment plans. It offers step-by-step guidance on how to create an evidence-based psychotherapy treatment plan for disruptive child and adolescent behavior. In a viewer-friendly manner, Drs. Art Jongsma and Tim Bruce discuss the steps involved in psychotherapy treatment planning and how to integrate objectives and interventions into a treatment planas part of an overall evidence-based practice. A sample evidence-based treatment plan for disruptive child and adolescent behavior is provided.?

In this DVD, Drs. Jongsma and Bruce:

• Discuss the process and criteria for diagnosing disruptive child and adolescent behavioral disorders
• Describe the essential elements of psychotherapy treatment planning
• Provide a brief history of efforts to identify empirically supported treatments (ESTs)
• Describe identified ESTs for disruptive child and adolescent behavior
• Demonstrate how to empirically inform a psychotherapy treatment with objectives and interventions consistent with those of identified ESTs for disruptive child and adolescent behavior
• Show and discuss role-played scenarios that demonstrate selected aspects of the ESTs
• Discuss common considerations in relapse prevention and show how they can be integrated into a psychotherapy treatment plan

System requirements:

• Playable on a set top DVD player or a computer with a DVD-ROM drive, at least 512 MB system RAM, and a software DVD decoder
• PC requires Windows 2000 or higher; Mac requires OS9 or higher
• Sound card and speakers required to listen to audio