Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children: A Manual for Treating Childhood Anxiety

by Randye J. Semple PhD, Jennifer Lee PhD, Mark Williams PhD (Foreword by), John D. Teasdale PhD (Foreword by), Zindel V. Segal PhD (Foreword by)

Overview

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children offers a complete professional treatment program designed to help children ages nine through twelve who struggle with anxiety. This twelve-session protocol can be used to treat anxious children in group or individual therapy. The poems, stories, session summaries, and home practice activities on the enclosed CD-ROM supplement child therapy sessions and parent meetings to illuminate mindful awareness concepts and practices. In twelve simple sessions, children will learn new ways to relate to anxious thoughts and feelings and develop the ability to respond to life events with greater awareness and confidence.

Help children manage the symptoms of all types of anxiety:

•Panic disorder
•Agoraphobia
•Obsessive-compulsive disorder
•Post-traumatic stress disorder
•Generalized anxiety disorder
•Social phobia
•Specific phobias
•Separation anxiety disorder
•School refusal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608825325
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	394
Sales rank:	320,927
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Randye J. Semple, PhD, is assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California, where she teaches and provides clinical supervision to psychiatry residents and graduate students. Her research and clinical interests focus on the development and integration of mindfulness-based interventions for children in psychiatric clinical care.

Jennifer Lee, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and at the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie, a residential treatment center, where she provides clinical consultation and direct care for at-risk children and their families. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at Marist College teaching graduate students in the field of mental health counseling.

Illustrator Denise McMorrow Mahone, MFA, is an artist pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Her writing, sculpture, drawing, and photography explore our spiritual, ecological, and poetic aspects as human beings. She lives with her husband, Paco, and young sons, Eamonn and Gabriel.

Foreword writer Mark Williams, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University, UK, where he is also Wellcome Principal Research Fellow.

Foreword writer John D. Teasdale, PhD, is codeveloper of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression and a coauthor of the books Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression and The Mindful Way through Depression.

Foreword writer Zindel V. Segal, PhD, is head of the cognitive behavior therapy clinic and professor in the departments of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Toronto.

Randye J. Semple, PhD, is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. A graduate of Columbia University, she trains psychiatry residents and provides clinical supervision. Semple's research focuses on the development and integration of mindfulness-based interventions in psychiatric clinical care. She has presented at national conventions and published scientific papers and chapters on this topic.
Jennifer Lee, PhD, a graduate of Columbia University, is a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in mindfulness-based treatments for mood and anxiety disorders. She also serves as adjunct instructor at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where she teaches graduate students in mental health counseling. Lee has published articles and chapters on mindfulness and child and adolescent mental health.
Mark Williams, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University, UK. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a fellow of the British Academy. He is author of many books and articles on the psychology of depression and its treatment, focusing on mindfulness-based approaches.
John Teasdale is one of the co-developers of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT), and a co-author of the books Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, and The Mindful Way through Depression. Now retired, he was formerly a senior researcher with the UK Medical Research Council in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His research contributed to the base of understanding from which MBCT was derived, and provided the evidence demonstrating the clinical effectiveness of MBCT in preventing relapse in depression.
Zindel V. Segal, PhD, is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is coauthor of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression and The Mindful Way through Depression.

Editorial Reviews

Semple and Lee do a very good job integrating CBT with mindfulness-based approaches. Where similarities exist they are pointed out and where differences exist they are made known. Primarily aimed at practitioners, this book could also be a valuable adjunctive textbook in any graduate level psychology, psychiatry, or social work program where child- and family-focused psychotherapy are part of the curriculum. This does represent a new and exciting addition to those treatment paradigms focusing on childhood anxiety that have already received empirical support.”
—Howard A. Paul, PhD, ABPP, FAACP, in a review from the journal, Child & Family Behavior Therapy, June, 2012

“Informed by the authors’ years of personal experience and rigorous methodological development, this book provides a treatment manual that is both clinically accessible and supported by empirical clinical trials. . . . Semple and Lee’s MBCT-C manual is one of the most detailed, thorough, and eloquently written manuals in the mindfulness intervention armamentarium.”
—Joshua C. Felver, in a review for the journal, Mindfulness, October, 2011

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