Research on Assessment and Methodology

A Model of Therapist Competencies for the Empirically Supported Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Depressive Disorders

Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 14(1), 89-109. Read more.

• Using the Delphi technique, researchers identified an empirically derived set of competencies necessary for effectively treating children and adolescents with anxiety and depressive disorders, which has wide implications for the development of therapist training, competence assessment measures, and evidence-based practice guidelines for working with this population.

Therapist Factors and Outcomes in CBT for Anxiety in Youth

Podell, J., Kendall, P. C., Gosch, E., Compton, S., March, J., Albano, A .M., Rynn, M., Walkup, J., Sherrill, J., Ginsburg, G., Keeton, C., Birmaher, B., & Piacentini, J. C. (2013). 

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 44, 89-98.