Take Action Practitioner Guidebook [Paperback]

The complete practitioner resource for the Take Action Program  a user-friendly cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment program for school and community psychologists who work with anxious children aged 4-12 years. Easy-to-use, flexible, and robustly effective in a clinic or classroom, the program uses recent research on how anxious children interpret ambiguous or mildly aversive situations as more dangerous than non-anxious children. This comprehensive practitioner guide contains all six treatment modules, an assessment module, background and theory, and 124 child and parent handouts which may be photocopied. Clients can be provided with a professional and permanent record of therapy via the handouts and work sheets from the guide being purchased separately as bound booklets with color covers. (see Take Action Child Handout Workbook ISBN 9781922112781, and Take Action Parent Handout Workbook ISBN 9781922112298). For more information about Take Action go towww.takeactionprogram.com

Take Action is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) program specifically developed with the following goals in mind:(a)To optimise treatment outcomes through the integration of findings from recent research on the threat-based cognitive biases and maladaptive thinking styles ?associated with anxiety disorders in children.(b)To provide an evidence-based cognitive-behavioural treatment program for anxious children that is practitioner-friendly.(c)To provide a program that can be delivered in a flexible, adaptable way to suit the setting in which it is being delivered and the individual needs of children receiving treatment.The program consists of six treatment modules for children with supporting information guidelines for parents, and one assessment module. Each session lasts approximately 1 hour. The program covers the major components of CBT including psychoeducation, somatic management, cognitive restructuring, and exposure therapy, as well as problem-solvl#®