Paula M. Barrett & Thomas H. Ollendick 
Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents 
Prevention and Treatment

Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and
Adolescents, considers evidence-based practice to assess
the developmental issues, aetiology, epidemiology, assessment,
treatment, and prevention of child and adolescent psychopathology.
World-leading contributors provide overviews of empirically
validated intervention and prevention initiatives.

Arranged in three parts, Part I lays theoretical foundations of
‘treatments that work’ with children and
adolescents. Part II presents the evidence base for the
treatment of a host of behaviour problems, whilst Part III contains
exciting prevention programs that attempt to intervene with several
child and adolescent problems before they become
disorders.

This Handbook presents encouraging evidence that we can
intervene successfully at the psychosocial level with children and
adolescents who already have major psychiatric disorders and, as
importantly, that we can even prevent some of these disorders from
occurring in the first place.

Table of Content

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES RELATED TO COMPETENT CLINICAL AND
RESEARCH PRACTICE.

Chapter 1: Empirically Supported Treatments for Children and
Adolescents: Advances Toward Evidence-Based Practice (Thomas H.
Ollendick and Neville J. King).

Chapter 2: Developmental Issues in Evidence-Based Practice
(Grayson N. Holmbeck, Rachel Neff Greenley, and Elizabeth A.
Franks).

Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis in Evidence-Based Practice
(Wendy K. Silverman and Lissette M. Saavedra).

Chapter 4: Evaluation Issues in Evidence-Based Practice (Nirbhay
N. Singh and Donald P. Oswald).

Chapter 5: Assessment and Treatment of Ethnically Diverse
Children and Adolescents (Robi Sonderegger and Paula M.
Barrett).

PART II: TREATMENT STATUS FOR SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND
BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS.

Chapter 6: Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Children
and Adolescents (Jennifer L. Hudson, Alicia A. Hughes, and Philip
C. Kendall).

Chapter 7: Treatment of SAD and Panic Disorder in Children and
Adolescents (Sara G. Mattis and Donna B. Pincus).

Chapter 8: Treatment of Social Phobia in Children and
Adolescents (Tracy L. Morris).

Chapter 9: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Childhood and
Adolescence: Description and Treatment (Paula M. Barrett, Lara
Healy-Farrell, John Piacentini, and John March).

Chapter 10: Treatment of PTSD in Children and Adolescents (Sean
Perrin, Patrick Smith, and William Yule).

Chapter 11: Treatment of School Refusal (David Heyne and Neville
J. King).

Chapter 12: Treatment of Specific Phobia in Children and
Adolescents (Thomas H. Ollendick, Thompson E. Davis III, and Peter
Muris).

Chapter 13: Treatment of Depression in Children and Adolescents
(Laura D. Seligman, Amanda B. Goza, and Thomas H. Ollendick).

Chapter 14: Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders in Children
and Adolescents (Holly Barrett Waldron and Sheryl Kern-Jones).

Chapter 15: Treatment of ADHD in Children and Adolescents (Karen
C.Wells).

Chapter 16: Treatment of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in
Children and Adolescents (Ross W. Greene, J. Stuart Ablon, Jennifer
C. Goring, Vanessa Fazio, and Lauren R. Morse).

Chapter 17: Treatment of Conduct Problems in Children and
Adolescents (Robert J. Mc Mahon and Julie S. Kotler).

PART III: PREVENTION INITIATIVES FOR SPECIFIC EMOTIONAL AND
BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS.

Chapter 18: Prevention of Childhood Anxiety and Depression
(Paula M. Barrett and Cynthia M. Turner).

Chapter 19: Prevention of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and
Conduct Disorder in Children and Adolescents (Ronald J. Prinz and
Jean E. Dumas).

Chapter 20: Using the Triple P System of Intervention to Prevent
Behavioural Problems in Children and Adolescents (Matthew R.
Sanders, Carol Markie-Dadds, Karen M.T. Turner, and Alan
Ralph).

Chapter 21: Prevention of Substance Abuse in Children and
Adolescents (Cecilia A. Essau).

Index.

About the author

Paula M. Barrett is the editor of Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents: Prevention and Treatment, published by Wiley.

Thomas H. Ollendick is University Distinguished Professor in Clinical Psychology and Director of the Child Study Center at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He is the author or co-author of over 300 research publications, 75 book chapters, and 25 books.