Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Child and Adolescent Anxiety Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, CAPP, is a new, manualized, tested, 24-session psychotherapeutic approach to working psychodynamically with youth with anxiety disorders. This manual provides a description of psychodynamic treatment principles and technique and offers a guide to opening, middle, and termination phases of this psychotherapy. Its chapters cover important topics such as the historical background of psychodynamic child psychotherapy, developmental aspects of child psychotherapy, and the nature of parent involvement in the treatment.