Section outline

  • Annotated bibliography or Movie Review due!

    Topic:  Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents

    Topic: Depression, Anxiety, Non-suicidal self injury behavior.

    A.  Theories of depression, and how depressive symptoms appear in children and                              

           adolescents.

    B.   Anxiety disorders.

    C.   Treatment approaches:  Psychodynamic/Relational, Cognitive-Behavioral,          

           Family Systems.

    D.   Medication.

    E.   Non- suicidal self-injury and the therapeutic management

    Readings:

    Required:

    -Gosch, E., Brookland, R., Wolelnsky, M. (2018) "Treatment of generalized anxiety disorder" in Kendall, P. (ed). Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents- A Casebook for Clinical Practice, Third Edition.  The Guilford Press.

    -Kam-Shing, Y. (2006).  A strengths perspective in working with an adolescent with self-cutting behavior.   Child and Adolescent Social Work, 23(2), 134-144.

    -“The Mystifying Rise of Child Suicide”, by Andrew Solomon.  The New Yorker, April 4, 2022.  A family tragedy sheds light on a burgeoning mental-health emergency.  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/11/the-mystifying-rise-of-child-suicide

    -Stewart, S.M., Simmons, A., and Habibpour, E. (2012).  Treatment of culturally diverse children and adolescents with depression. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 22(1) pp. 72-79. 

    Recommended:

    Kate Julian, The Atlantic, May, 2020,  "What Happened to American Childhood?  Childhood in an Anxious Age."