InhaltsangabeI: Theoretical Ground For Cognitiveconstructivist Psychotherapy With Children And Adolescents.- The Unique Nature of Child Psychotherapy.- The Complexity of Child Therapy.- Gender as a Component To Be Considered.- The Impact of Children's Cognitive Level.- The Influence of Children's Emotional Stage.- Mobilizing the Child's Motivation for Change.- Personal Style, Interests, and Culture.- Cognitive-Constructivist Therapy with Children.- The Basic Assumptions of Cognitive Theory.- The Basics of Constructivist Therapy.- The Cognitive-Constructivist View of Therapy.- Child Development in View of Cognitive-Constructivist Theories.- Adapting Cognitive-Constructivist Psychotherapy to Children.- Basic Principles in Applying Cognitive-Constructivist Therapy with Children.- Creative Intervention.- Defining Creativity.- The Creative Process.- Characteristics of Creative People.- Art as a Creative Intervention.- Creative Psychotherapists.- Techniques to Facilitate Creativity.- II: Applying an Intervention Model.- Making Decisions on Therapy.- A Preface: Assessment as an Essential Treatment Feature from Start to Finish.- Phase 1: How to Decide If Therapy Is Needed Based on the Unique Nature of Childhood.- Phase 2: How to Classify Children's Referrals and Goals for Change.- Phase 3: How to Decide Who Should Be Treated (Setting) Based on Developmental Variables and Referral Type.- Phase 4: Creative Thinking in Selecting Appropriate Modes and Techniques for Change.- Phase 5: How to Evaluate and Maintain Treatment Outcomes.- Self-Control Therapy with Children.- Imparting Children with Self-Control Skills.- The Efficacy of the Self-Control Intervention Model (SCIM) with Children.- Description of the Self-Control Intervention Model (SCIM).- III: Childhood Disorders: Reviewsand Case Studies.- Early Childhood.- Selective MutisDl.- Literature Review.- Ben's Story of Silence.- AnxietyDisorder.- Literature Review.- Ari's Fear of Winter, Winds, and Thunderstorms.- Middle Childhood.- Trawnatized Children.- Literature Review.- The Case of Lee: Abuse, Neglect, and Adoption.- Psychosomatfc Pain.- Literature Review.- Dan, a Boy with Psychosomatic Aches.- Adolescence.- Enuresis.- Literature Review.- The Case of Sharon's Bedwetting.- Oppositional Defiant Disorder.- Literature Review.- Treating Guy: An Adolescent with Oppositional Defiant Disorder.- Childhood Depression.- Literature Review.- Jacob: Treating Depression and Helplessness.- IV: Summary And Closing Remarks.- Linking the Theoretical Ground and Case Studies in Light of the Different Phases of Intervention.- Epilogue: The Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapist's Own Creativity and Flexibility.- The Role of the Therapeutic Relationship in Decision Making and Intervention.- Therapist Flexibility and Creativity.- References.- About the Author.