1.How might the traditional structure of mental health treatment and professional relationships block family participation in treatment decisions?
2.Discuss your experiences with accessing and using evidence-based therapies in child/adolescent treatment.
3.Name the quality and characteristics you would include when listing a child’s strengths.
4.Discuss how you might build an environment around a child that would support competency and augment vulnerabilities.
5.What developmental issues of adolescence might pose difficulties in relationship building during psychotherapy?
6.How might you use the neurobiology material in this chapter in your approach to children/adolescents with serious emotional illness?
7.This chapter contained a case example of how to intervene using a common factors method. How does this differ from your notion of the process of child psychotherapy?