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Developmental Psychopathology and Child Psychotherapy

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Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology ((ICCP))

Abstract

Although it might be assumed that logical connections exist between the provision of psychotherapeutic interventions to children and adolescents and developmental theory and research, far too few bridges have been forged between these areas of knowledge Cicchetti & Toth, 1992; Cicchetti, Toth, & Bush, 1988; Noam, 1992; Shirk, 1988a, Shirk & Russell, 1996). Because nondevelopmental adult-derived classification guidelines have historically been applied to formulating diagnoses of the mental disorders of childhood, it is not surprising that adevelopmental approaches to intervention, frequently drawn from the adult literature, often have been the norm when providing interventions to children and adolescents. The perpetuation of the “developmental uniformity myth” (Kendall, Lerner, & Craighead, 1984) to interventions for children, wherein it is assumed that mental disorders manifest themselves similarly regardless of age and therefore do not require therapeutic techniques that are sensitive to developmental change, has impeded efforts to provide theoretically guided and developmentally appropriate services to children and adolescents. Further, decision-making regarding what constitutes an action that is in a child’s best interest cannot be made adequately unless the child’s level of functioning across an array of developmental domains (e.g., cognition, emotion, language) and the concomitant capacity to comprehend the meaning of certain events are considered. Moreover, different incidents can have different meanings depending on when they occur in the developmental period. The individual’s history, temperament, and current supports and resources all play a role in helping a child to construct an “individual” meaning from a given event, thereby further contributing to the overall impact on the child.

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Toth, S.L., Cicchetti, D. (1999). Developmental Psychopathology and Child Psychotherapy. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_2

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