Coping Power: Child Group Program Workbook 8-Copy Set(Programs That Work)

This program is an evidence-based intervention for behavioral challenges in pre-adolescent children (grades 5 and 6). Continuing the work of the Fast Track Program, this intervention targets children who are beginning to show signs of severe aggression and social dysfunction at school. Children who begin to exhibit aggression as pre-adolescents are much more likely to have histories of substance abuse, interpersonal violence, and criminal behavior in their adolescence. By targeting these children before their behavior has become extremely dangerous or unmanageable, this program has been proven to reduce the occurrence of these problems and to improve functioning in school. Studies have shown that children who demonstrate aggressive behaviors have maladaptive coping skills and misperceptions of conflict or threat. This program teaches positive strategies for coping with perceived conflict or threat, as well as an understanding of the participant's feelings and motivations behind inappropriate behaviors. The Coping Power program involves an intervention with aggressive children and a simultaneous program for their parents, to increase positive motivations at home as well as at school. The facilitator's guide include step-by-step instructions for accurately implementing this evidence-based program. This is the corresponding workbook for children, which includes worksheets and monitoring forms to track progress and reinforce the skills learned in the group sessions.

About the Author :
John E. Lochman, PhD, ABPP, is Saxon Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The University of Alabama, where he also is Senior Fellow at the Alabama Life Research Institute, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Youth Development and Intervention. Dr. Lochman is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Prevention Research, and the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and he has received distinguished career awards from the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and the American Board for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Dr. Lochman has more than 500 publications on social cognition, emotion regulation, peer relations, family process, and intervention and prevention research with children with aggressive behavior problems, including outcome research on the Coping Power intervention. His collaborative Coping Power research in the past 20 years has focused on effectiveness and implementation studies of Coping Power, on studies of adaptation and of Coping Power for different populations and optimization of key intervention mechanisms, on intervention process issues that affect Coping Power outcomes, and on cross-over effects of Coping Power on other outcomes including internalizing outcomes and on suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Karen C. Wells, PhD, is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director Emeritus of the Family Studies Program and Clinic at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Throughout her career she has been actively involved in research in the development and treatment of child and adolescent psychological disorders (including ADHD, oppositional defiant disorders, depression, and adolescent suicidality) and especially in family and parenting factors in etiology and treatment. With John Lochman, she contributed to the development of the Coping Power Program and to research on its evaluation and application. She is currently retired and living in North Carolina. Lisa A. Lenhart, PhD, is the founder and owner of the private practice Lisa A. Lenhart, PhD LLC, which was founded in 2013, and is a child clinical psychologist who has provided diagnostic and therapeutic services to children and families for more than 30 years. She provides comprehensive evaluations to children and adolescents, in addition to continuing to provide therapeutic services to individuals with a variety of difficulties, using research-based assessment and treatment models to help individuals with a variety of difficulties function more effectively in life. Prior to that, she was the senior psychologist in the Testing and Tutoring Service at The Treatment and Learning Centers (TLC) in Maryland, where she oversaw the testing department at TLC for approximately 10 years, ensuring the clinical quality of all psychological evaluations and treatment conducted. She has extensive supervision experience, both of professionals and students, and consults with other professionals in an ongoing manner. She was the project coordinator for the Coping Power Program for three years, and continues to implement the strategies developed in this program in her work with children and families.