Background Children with callous‐unemotional (CU) traits are at high lifetime risk of
antisocial behavior. It is unknown if treatments for disruptive behavior disorders are as …

Objective: To improve outcomes and create more personalized interventions, the field has
sought to identify moderators of treatment response (variables that specify which treatments …

What is it that makes some therapists so much more effective than others, even when they
are delivering the same evidence-based treatment? This instructive book identifies specific …

The field has spent more than 50 years investing in the quality of youth mental healthcare,
with intervention science yielding roughly 1,300 efficacious treatments. In the latter half of …

Meta-analyses of school-based CBT have shown that prevention for anxiety symptoms
typically report small but significant effects. There is limited knowledge regarding which …

This study examined the relationship between caregivers' and youths' treatment
expectations and characteristics of exposure tasks (quantity, mastery, compliance) in …

Objective To examine the impact of youth-and caregiver-reported pretreatment worries
about treatment (ie, concerns about the effect of, perceptions of, or aspects involved in …

The primary aims of this thesis were to investigate the outcomes achieved by young people
with anxiety and depression following treatment by specialist child and adolescent mental …