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A cognitive- behavioral model recognizes the interdependencies of cognitive, affective, social, developmental, and behavioral factors in the etiology and remediation of childhood psychopathology. The model is concerned with the cognitive distortions and deficiencies that surround behavioral events and emphasizes the combination of treatment strategies with the therapist as a remediation organizer. Recommendations are made regarding treatment expectations, the specificity of the cognition-disorder relationship, the quality of the application of the training, and the need for further involvement of the child in the therapeutic curriculum.
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Portions of this paper were adapted from an address given at the Instituto Nacional De Salud Mental “Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi,” Lima, Peru, December 1984. Portions were also presented as part of a colloquium at Rutgers University. I wish to thank Kelly Bemis for her helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Kendall, P.C. Toward a cognitive-behavioral model of child psychopathology and a critique of related interventions. J Abnorm Child Psychol 13, 357–372 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00912722
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