• Contributors Introduction I. Childhood Clinical Disorders 1: Psychoeducation with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 2: Behavioral Parent Training with Oppositional Defiant Disorder 3: Solution-Focused Therapy with Oppositional Defiant Disorder Social Problems 4: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention with Physical Abuse 5: Cognitive-Behavioral Group Treatment with Mothers of Sexual Abuse Victims II. Adolescence Clinical Disorders 6: Structural Family Therapy with Adolescent Conduct Disorder Social Problems 7: Multisystemic Treatment with Juvenile Offending, Substance Abuse, and Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy III. Adulthood Clinical Disorders 8: Reinforcement Training with the Partners of Those Who Abuse Substances 9: Cognitive-Behavioral Marital Therapy with Depression 10: Joseph Walsh: Multiple-Family Psychoeducational Group for the Parents of Persons with Schizophrenia IV. Older Adulthood Social Problem 11: Patricia Gleason-Wynn: Psychoeducation with Caregivers of Older Adults References Index

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