Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents

JOHN B. ARDEN, PhD, is the Director of Training for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers for the Northern California Region. In his capacity, he oversees the internships and postdoctoral psychology residencies in twenty-two medical centers. He is the author of nine other books. LLOYD LINFORD, PhD, serves as Chair-man of Psychiatry and Chemical Depen-dency Best Practices for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California healthcare system, is a clinical psychologist at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, and is in private practice in Oakland, California.

Acknowledgments ix Preface xi

1 Changing and Staying the Same 1

2 Temperament and Neurodynamics 24

3 Attachment and Subjectivity 41

4 Rupture and Repair in Caregiving Relationships 59

5 Adolescence 83

6 Working from the BASE 100

7 Disorders of Attention and Self-Regulation 121

8 Anxiety in Children and Adolescents 143

9 Depression in Children and Adolescents 175

Appendix: Primer on the Brain 198

References 230

Author Index 280

Subject Index 283