This handbook offers a comprehensive review of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for working in integrated pediatric behavioral health care settings. It provides research findings, explanations of theoretical concepts and principles, and descriptions of therapeutic procedures as well as case studies from across broad conceptual areas. Chapters discuss the value of integrated care, diversity issues, ethical considerations, and the necessary adaptations. In addition, chapters address specific types of pediatric conditions and patients, such as the implementation of CBT with patients with gastrointestinal complaints, enuresis, encopresis, cancer, headaches, epilepsy, sleep problems, diabetes, and asthma. The handbook concludes with important directions in research and practice, including training and financial considerations.Topics featured in this handbook include:Emotional regulation and pediatric behavioral health problems.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for pediatric medical conditions.Pharmacological interventions and the combined use of CBT and medication.CBT in pediatric patients with chronic pain.CBT for pediatric obesity.CBT-informed treatments and approaches for transgender and gender expansive youth.Medical non-compliance and non-adherence associated with CBT.Training issues in pediatric psychology.The Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Medical Conditions is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students as well as clinicians, related therapists, and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, nursing, and special education.

Synthesizes leading research and clinical perspectives on integrated pediatric behavioral health care

Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowledge, Actionable Practices, and Urgency.- Part 1 Broad Conceptual Issues.- Chapter 2. The Value of Integrated Pediatric Behavioral Health Care.- Chapter 3. Diversity Issues in Pediatric Behavioral Health Care.- Chapter 4. Ethical Issues Applying CBT in Pediatric Medical Settings.- Chapter 5. Emotional Regulation and Pediatric Behavioral Health Problems.- Chapter 6. Motivational Interviewing.- Chapter 7. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Youth: Essential Foundations and Elementary Practices.- Chapter 8. Necessary Adaptations to CBT with Pediatric Patients.- Chapter 9. DBT for Multi-Problem Adolescents.- Chapter 10. DBT Adaptations with Pediatric Patients.- Chapter 11. Pharmacological Interventions.- Part II Working with Specific Populations.- Chapter 12. CBT in Primary Care.- Chapter 13. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Chronic Widespread Musculoskeletal Pain.- Chapter 14. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders.- Chapter 15. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Enuresis.- Chapter 16. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Encopresis.- Chapter 17. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Headache Disorders in Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 18. Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Pediatric Sleep Difficulties.- Chapter 19. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Epilepsy and Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures.- Chapter 20. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Oncology: Flexible Applications of Core Principles.- Chapter 21. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Young Patients Diagnosed with Diabetes.- Chapter 22. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth with Asthma: Anxiety as an Example.- Chapter 23. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Obesity.- Chapter 24. Working with Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth.- Chapter 25. Non-Compliance and Non-Adherence.- Part III Special Topics.- 26. Training Issues in Pediatric Psychology.- Chapter 27. Financial Issues.- Chapter 28. Conclusion: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go From Here?