November 26, 1999

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: It Works, but Why?

By ALAN E. KAZDIN

Psychotherapy for children and adolescents does not generally receive much attention from the public. Yet the treatment of young people's mental disorders is a major social challenge: From 15 to 20 per cent of school-age children and adolescents in the United States -- approximately 10 to 13 million people -- experience some form of diagnosable psychiatric disorder.

Researchers, too, have paid less attention to the mental problems of young people than to

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