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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Youth: Essential Foundations and Elementary Practices

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with youth is a frontline psychosocial treatment for youth diagnosed with a variety of disorders. Buttressed by strong empirical findings, CBT offers practitioners a flexible way to alleviate distress. This chapter briefly reviews the theoretical and empirical stanchions for CBT with youth. Further, a modular approach to CBT is described, and a case example illustrates salient points.

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Friedberg, R.D., Paternostro, J.K. (2019). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Youth: Essential Foundations and Elementary Practices. In: Friedberg, R.D., Paternostro, J.K. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Medical Conditions. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21683-2_7

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