All about FIRST -- Using FIRST and the FIRST Decision Trees to Treat Anxiety/OCD, Posttraumatic Stress, Depression, and Misbehavior -- Beginning Treatment -- Clinician Guides: Facts about the Problems Treated with FIRST -- Help for Caregivers: Handouts on the Problems Treated with FIRST -- Using the FIRST Principles: Feeling Calm -- Using the FIRST Principles: Increasing Motivation -- Using the FIRST Principles: Repairing Thoughts -- Using the FIRST Principles: Solving Problems -- Using the FIRST Principles: Trying the Opposite -- Skill Units for Continuing Treatment, Boosting Engagement, and Ending Treatment -- Appendix I. Published Studies Showing Independent Effects of the Five FIRST Principles -- Appendix II. Sample Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script -- Appendix III. Using FIRST for Panic Attacks and Tic/Habit Behaviors -- Appendix IV. Frequently Asked Questions for Clinical Practice.
Summary:
Presenting a fresh approach to child and adolescent therapy, this book identifies five principles at the heart of the most potent evidence-based treatments--and shows how to apply them. Clinicians learn efficient, engaging ways to teach the skills of Feeling Calm, Increasing Motivation, Repairing Thoughts, Solving Problems, and Trying the Opposite (FIRST) to 5- to 15-year-olds and their parents. FIRST principles can be used flexibly and strategically in treatment of problems including anxiety, posttraumatic stress, depression, and misconduct. In a convenient large-size format, the book features 37 reproducible parent handouts, decision trees, and other clinical tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print these materials, plus Spanish-language versions of selected parent handouts. -- Publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.