The information on this website is offered as a completely free service to families and mental health professionals to help ensure that children and adolescents benefit from the most up-to-date information about mental health treatment. We request absolutely no information from visitors to this site, and hope this service will help all learn more about important differences in mental health treatments. Families want their children to get the best possible treatment, and this site maintains an updated list of treatments with strong scientific support.

We hope you will find this information helpful. We regret that we cannot comment or offer advice on personal inquiries about diagnosis or treatment. Please follow-up with your child's doctor or one of the therapists linked through this site (click on FIND A THERAPIST). Getting the best care requires a diagnostic assessment and informed treatment planning. The Effective Child Therapy website is for educational purposes only.

The site was developed by the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association. The site is maintained regularly to ensure that information reflects the current scientific literature. All psychological treatments are considered for inclusion on this website, and anyone may offer input on the information listed. To learn more about how to request a change to this site, click here.