**Ömer Şenormancı, Associate Professor of Psychiatry**

University of Health Sciences Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital Department of Psychiatry Turkey

#### **Güliz Şenormancı, Psychiatrist**

**Chapter 1**

**Provisional chapter**

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Principles in Children:**

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effectiveness-proven therapy method in the psychosocial treatment of childhood internalizing disorder. Considering the techniques included, even though anxiety and major depression are two different disorders, they are observed to occupy a quite common pool in terms of their similar nature, symptoms, etiologies, and high comorbidity rates. While these techniques are rationally similar to those in adult CBT, application ways, contents, session structures of the techniques, and styles of homework should be adapted to the developmental characteristics of children. In this book chapter, initially, several CBT programs for childhood internalizing disorders will be mentioned. After than, main points to take into consideration while adapting CBT, which was firstly designed for adults to children, will be emphasized. Lastly, information about main CBT techniques, whose effectiveness has been proven in the treatment of

**Keywords:** childhood internalizing disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, childhood

In recent years, there has been a tendency toward gathering disorders under two main groups in order for the nature of mental disorders in childhood to be understood more easily, and to develop common therapy techniques. Externalizing disorders refer to mental disorders that include characteristics such as mainly opposition and aggressive behaviors, hyperactivity, and impulsivity [1]. Internalizing disorders are characterized by mood symptoms such as anxiety, fear, hopelessness, unhappiness, as well as social withdrawal, reduced self-esteem, loss of self-confidence [2]. The main disorders grouped

depression, childhood anxiety disorder, behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Principles in Children:**

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71932

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**Treatment of Internalizing Disorders**

**Treatment of Internalizing Disorders**

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internalizing disorders, will be given.

Emine Sevinç Sevi Tok

**Abstract**

**1. Introduction**

Emine Sevinç Sevi Tok

University of Health Sciences Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital Department of Psychiatry Turkey

**Provisional chapter**
