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Cognitive Mediators of the Outcome of Psychotherapy with Children

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Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

Part of the book series: Advances in Clinical Child Psychology ((ACCP,volume 12))

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Those of us who conduct child psychotherapy would like to believe that the outcome of the process is influenced by our efforts. On the other hand, few of us would argue that the outcome is determined solely by what we the therapists do. Instead, we recognize that children and adolescents (herein referred to collectively as “children”) begin psychotherapy with a form and substance of their own and that what each youngster brings to the process will help determine its outcome. In this chapter, we focus on how cognitive aspects of the child’s makeup may mediate the outcome of psychotherapy.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, USA

    John R. Weisz

  2. Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, USA

    Bahr Weiss

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Weisz, J.R., Weiss, B. (1989). Cognitive Mediators of the Outcome of Psychotherapy with Children. In: Lahey, B.B., Kazdin, A.E. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9832-5_2

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