Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Depressed Adolescents ─ A Practical Guide to Management and Treatment

CBT for Adolescent Depression provides clinicians, clinical supervisors, and researchers with a comprehensive understanding of etiological pathways as well as current CBT approaches for treating affected adolescents. Chapters guide readers from preparations for the first session and clinical assessment to termination and relapse prevention, and each chapter includes session transcripts to provide a more concrete sense of what it looks like to implement particular CBT techniques with depressed teens. In-depth discussions of unique challenges posed by working with depressed teens, as well as ways to address these issues, are also provided.

Randy P. Auerbach, PhD, ABPP, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and director of clinical research for the division of child and adolescent psychiatry and director of the Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Laboratory at McLean Hospital.

Christian A. Webb, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at McLean Hospital and research fellow in psychology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Joanna M. Chango, PhD, is a research and clinical postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital.