Quickly and efficiently create treatment plans for adolescents in a variety of treatment environments

The newly revised sixth edition of the Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner delivers an essential resource for mental health practitioners seeking to create effective, high-quality treatment plans that satisfy the needs of most third-party payers and state and federal review agencies. This book clarifies, simplifies, and accelerates the treatment planning process for adolescents so you can spend less time on paperwork and more time treating your clients.

This latest edition includes comprehensive and up-to-date revisions on treating the victims and perpetrators of bullying and aggression, gender dysphoria, loneliness, opioid use, and sleep disorders. It includes new evidence-based objectives and interventions, as well as an expanded and updated professional references appendix.

You’ll also find:

• A new appendix presenting location and availability information in an alphabetical index of objective assessment instruments and structured clinical interviews
• A consistent focus throughout the book on evidence-based practices and treatments consistent with practice guideline recommendations
• Ranges of treatment options consistent with the best available research and those reflecting common clinical practices of experienced clinicians

An essential treatment planning handbook for clinicians treating adolescents in a variety of settings, the sixth edition of the Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner is the key to quickly and efficiently creating individually tailored, evidence-based, and effective treatment plans for adolescent clients.

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, Jr., PhD, is Series Editor of the bestselling PracticePlanners. He has over five decades experience providing mental health services to inpatient and outpatient clients. He has authored or co-authored over fifty books.

L. MARK PETERSON, ACSW, retired Program Manager for Bethany Christian Services Residential Treatment and Family Counseling programs in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

WILLIAM P. McINNIS, PsyD, is a private practitioner with Aspen Psychological Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is co-author of the Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

TIMOTHY J. BRUCE, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

PracticePlanners® Series Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

About the Companion Website

Introduction 1

Academic Underachievement 16

Adoption 28

Anger Control Problems 39

Anxiety 54

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 67

Autism Spectrum Disorder 81

Bipolar Disorder 92

Blended Family 106

Bullying/Aggression Perpetrator

Bullying Victim

Conduct Disorder/Delinquency 117

Depression - Unipolar

Divorce Reaction 133

Eating Disorder

Gender Dysphoria

Grief/Loss Unresolved 160

Intellectual Development Disorder 171

Loneliness

Low Self-Esteem 182

Medical Condition 194

Negative Peer Influences 207

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 221

Opioid Use

Oppositional Defiant Disorder 234

Overweight/Obesity 248

Panic/Agoraphobia 261

Parenting 272

Peer/Sibling Conflict 287

Physical/Emotional Abuse Victim 298

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 309

Runaway 332

Schizophrenia Spectrum

Sexual Abuse Perpetrator 356

School Violence Perpetrator

Sexual Abuse Perpetrator

Sexual Abuse Victim 370

Sexual Orientation Confusion 380

Sexual Promiscuity 390

Sleep Disturbance

Social Anxiety 399

Specific Phobia 412

Substance Use 423

Suicidal Ideation 437

Appendix A Bibliotherapy Suggestions 460

Appendix B Clinical Resources for Therapists 489

Appendix C Recovery Model Objectives and Interventions 517

Appendix D Alphabetical Index of Sources for Assessment Instruments and Clinical Interview Forms Cited in Interventions 524