Background: Pakistan is a Lower and Middle Income Country with a scarcity of resources for mental health services but high prevalence of mental health problems particularly anxiety and depression. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been deemed an empirically supported treatment for anxiety disorders among children, but evidence is lacking from…

A brief historical perspective of research confirms the necessity of including children in discussions about death education. A taped counseling session with several preadolescent boys demonstrates the importance of accepting the deep feelings and fears that children must deal with in order to be free from unnatural anxiety about death. (Author)

Describes supportive group therapy for parents who sought relief from the painful grief experienced after the suicide of their child. Results indicate parents who felt overwhelmed by feelings of shame, guilt, self-doubt, confusion, and isolation found some relief in the universality of their grief and felt accepted and understood. (Author)

This book describes attachment theory, presents the attachment therapy program in place at the Evergreen Attachment Center at Evergreen, Colorado, and examines the implications of attachment therapy. The chapters are: (1) "An Overview" (Carole A. McKelvey, John Alston); (2) "Attachment Theory and Assessment" (Michael Orlans,…

The procedures, analyses, results, and discussion of a project which compared three methods of physical education programing for 96 emotionally disturbed children (6 to 14 years of age) in an 8-week summer camp program held during two summers are presented. The first year's program is seen to have served as a field test, with the most reliable…