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Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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With the annual cost of mental illness in Australia estimated to be in excess of 20 billion dollars (Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2013), and knowing that many of the behavioral and psychological precursors to poor health in adulthood have their origins in adolescence (Viner 2005), there is a need to establish robust health behaviors and adaptive psychological skills and flexibilities in adolescents. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an efficacious and empirically sound group of therapeutic techniques that addresses unhelpful thought and behavioral patterns to increase functionality and reduce the immense multifaceted impact that untreated mental illness has globally. However, its effectiveness in adolescent populations is less clear. With over 20 % of young Australians (15–19 years) suggested to meet the criteria for having a probable mental illness and 60 % of these reporting to be uncomfortable in seeking help or advice for mental illness (Ivancic et al. 2014),...

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, 5042, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Anthony Venning, Paula Redpath & Simone Orlowski

  2. Trinity College Gawler Inc, 5118, Evanston South, SA, Australia

    Lisa Kettler

  3. The School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Lisa Kettler

  4. School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Jaklin Eliott

  5. Paramedics / School of Medicine, Flinders University, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Anne Wilson

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Venning, A., Kettler, L., Redpath, P., Orlowski, S., Eliott, J., Wilson, A. (2016). Cognitive Behavior Therapy. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_324-2

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