Treatments that Work
Flexibility within Fidelity
What's it Treat?
Clinical Skills
What Effective Therapists Do
100

This parent training program a relationship enhancement and effective discipline component taught through a primary in vivo coaching model to teach the parent new skills

What is PCIT?

100

Incorporating culture, attitudes, values and other positive socialization messages into existing evidence-based treatment

What are adaptations for racially and ethnically diverse youth?

100

A type of treatment that has 2 phases; first break the cycle of coercive interactions and then train parents in giving clearer and more effective commands

What is parent management training for disruptive child behavior?

100

A technique to help a client identify self-defeating, negative, or unhelpful beliefs and then modify them into more adaptive and helpful beliefs

What is Cognitive Restructuring?

100

Establishing a positive working relationship between therapist and client

What is Therapeutic Alliance?

200

This animal themed treatment has 2 parts where first a child learns when they experience a target emotion and then engages in gradual and repeated practice with difficult situations to learn to more effectively cope with the emotion

What is Coping Cat?

200

Reduce the reading level, breaking down concepts into fewer or easier to understand pieces, and incorporating more methods to check for understanding

What are adaptations for intellectual or cognitive impairment?

200

Treatment that creates a ranked list of emotion provoking experiences and then encourages the child to immerse themselves in those experiences to learn how to more effectively cope with the strong emotions that are triggered

What is exposure-based treatment for anxiety?

200

Systematic and repeated confrontation with a feared stimulus

What are Exposures?

200

A communication mechanism that responds to a speaker with either a restatement of their expression or a guess about what the speaker means

What are Reflections?

300

This 15-session group-based therapy for youth 7- to 13-years old teaches children skills by encouraging them to become detectives

What is the Unified Protocol for Children?

300

Greater use of visual supports to provide more concrete or structured
expectations, video modeling, and social stories or narratives to promote increased social insight

What are adaptations for Autism?

300

This treatment includes 3 components; education, affect identification, and relationship skills building and leverages the relationship to lead to client symptom change

What is IPT-A for depression?

300

An intervention that explicitly increases a client’s engagement in desired life activities through guided goal setting to bring about improvements in thoughts and mood

What is Behavioral Activation?

300

Instilling a belief that one will have positive experiences or that one will be experience a more positive future

What is Hope?

400

This evidence-based treatment uses CBT principles and creating a story about difficult experiences to decrease symptoms such as flashbacks, re-experiencing, and/or heightened arousal.

What is TF-CBT?

400

Including cognitive restructuring of illness-related thoughts, behavioral activation balancing illness-related and enjoyable activities, psychoeducation about the link between the chronic illness and mood symptoms

What are adaptations for Chronic Illness?

400

Treatment where youth are taught organizational rules that were measured to a checklist with rewards for successfully following and achieving them

What is organizational skills training for ADHD?

400

A statement that tells another person exactly what they did that you liked

What is Positive Labeled Praise?

400

Seeking to understand a person from his or her frame of reference rather than own's one.

What is Empathy?

500

This flexible treatment uses a modular approach building on existing therapy techniques to treat 4 primary target areas and addresses comorbidity with additional modules for 'interference.'

What is MATCH-ADTC?

500

More frequent use of positive reinforcement strategies like sticker charts, frequent rewards, use of developmentally matched visual and physical aids (e.g., cartoons, puppets, toys)

What are adaptations for younger children?

500

Treatment that emphasizes that supports identity exploration, that variation is not a disorder, is multifaceted, and that psychopathology, if present, is more the result of cultural reaction than within the person

What is gender affirming care for gender diverse youth?

500

Technique to reduce undesirable behaviors by removing the individual from situations that reinforce or continue the behavior

What is Time Out (from positive reinforcement)?

500

A process of structured inquiry and discussion to explore concepts and values that underline everyday activity and judgment

What is Socratic questioning?

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