Take Action Practitioner Guidebook

Waters, Allison; Groth, Trisha

ISBN 10: 1922117277 / ISBN 13: 9781922117274

Editore: Australian Academic Press, 2014

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• Titolo: Take Action Practitioner Guidebook
• Editore: Australian Academic Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1922117277
• ISBN 13: 9781922117274
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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A user-friendly guide for mental health and educational professionals to the Take Action Program, detailing the assessment and treatment of child anxiety. It is great for small group therapy or individual client work in the clinic, and also fits well into school wellbeing and resiliency work. The program teaches children aged 4–12 years helpful ways to cope with and manage anxiety. It is an evidence-based intervention combining recent research on threat-based cognitive biases and maladaptive thinking styles in childhood anxiety disorders with the well-established principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT).This easy-to-follow and comprehensive practitioner guide contains all six treatment modules, an assessment module with useful information on a range of assessments for those practitioners wanting to use pre or post intervention outcome measures, a background and theory section, and 124 child and parent handouts which may be photocopied. The treatment modules can be used sequentially across eight or ten weeks to provide an individual or group intervention or the modules can be used as stand-alone guides to teach specific skills. The word ACTION is a coping-oriented acronym used throughout the program. Children are encouraged to take action against their anxiety. This means children approach their fears and worries using strategies learnt during the program. Children and parents can be provided with a professional and permanent record of therapy via the handouts and worksheets from the guide being purchased separately (see Take Action Child Handout Workbook ISBN 9781922112781, and Take Action Parent Handout Workbook ISBN 9781922112298).

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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-solving, social skills development, strategies for being assertive, and relapse prevention and maintenance. The program can be delivered in a group or individual format for children between 4 and 12 years of age, and includes this comprehensive practitioner manual outlining how to run the child and parent sessions as well as individual handouts for children and parents. More than 450 children have completed Take Action since 2004 with research results showing that between 60–80% of children are no longer meeting criteria for their main anxiety disorder at the end of a group program. In school settings, Take Action has also been used in a flexible format by registered psychologists and school guidance counsellors who identify children in need of treatment. The program is adapted by the guidance counsellors and psychologists as deemed necessary to meet the needs of the children referred for treatment within each school. For example it might entail reducing the number of sessions to fit within the school term, combining parent- and child-sessions or sending parent-handouts home with children for parents who work and are unable to attend the sessions. The program has also been delivered classroom-wide by trained psychologists, where high levels of anxiety among children have been identified by guidance counsellors. The program materials are designed and produced by leading psychology publisher Australian Academic Press, who has been providing quality evidence-based mental health interventions, including the former FRIENDS program, since 1987.