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Childhood Depression

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Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy

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Cognitive therapy has developed rapidly since the early 1970s and has become a respected and established model for conceptualizing and treating a range of emotional and behavioral problems. As the chapters of this volume attest, the theory has yielded a family of important therapeutic techniques that have proven useful in treating a number of adult disorders, including depression, generalized anxiety, panic disorder, marital problems, alcohol and substance abuse, and personality disorders.

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  1. Center for Cognitive Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA

    Mark A. Reinecke

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  1. Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey, USA

    Arthur Freeman

  2. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

    Frank M. Dattilio

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Reinecke, M.A. (1992). Childhood Depression. In: Freeman, A., Dattilio, F.M. (eds) Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9777-0_14

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