unique problems that often challenge traditional methods of intervention. This Second Edition is an indispensable resource, revised and updated to provide therapists with a wide variety of valuable treatment and nontraditional intervention techniques, such as expressive arts, relaxation, deep pressure/touch, confrontational, stress-challenge, nature-oriented, and modeling therapy. The Second Edition provides important, clinically proven techniques, including: * Wilderness/Challenge programs for youth * The use of dance movement therapy with troubled youth * Musical interaction therapy for autistic children * Pet therapy * The video playback technique with children * Hypnotic techniques for children with anxiety problems * Touch therapy for infants, children, and adolescents * Therapeutic use of computers with children * Biofeedback with children and adolescents * Programmed distance writing for acting out adolescents * Guided imagery with children and adolescents * Bibliotherapy for children and teens * Focusing as a therapeutic technique with children and adolescents. These techniques cut across diagnostic categories and theoretical orientations and can be integrated within all therapeutic styles.

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