**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Principles in Children: Treatment of Internalizing Disorders Treatment of Internalizing Disorders**

**Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Principles in Children:** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71932

Emine Sevinç Sevi Tok Emine Sevinç Sevi Tok Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

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**Ömer Şenormancı, Associate Professor of Psychiatry**

Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital

Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital

University of Health Sciences

**Güliz Şenormancı, Psychiatrist** University of Health Sciences

Department of Psychiatry

Department of Psychiatry

Turkey

Turkey

organization during the development of the book.

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#### **Abstract**

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 internalizing disorders, will be given.

**Keywords:** childhood internalizing disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy, childhood depression, childhood anxiety disorder, behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy
