Adolescent Coping With Depression Course: Leader's Manual for Adolescent Groups
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research · 1990 · 321 pages + 199-page student workbook · For clinicians running CBT groups for depressed teens
Read it at the official source
The manual's own copyright page grants free download from the Center for Health Research website. KPCHR's landing pages for the project have gone dead, so the links go directly to the official PDFs, with archived copies as backup.
If the publisher link moves: archived copy
Clarke, Lewinsohn, and Hops' classic group CBT course for depressed adolescents: sixteen two-hour sessions covering mood monitoring, social skills, pleasant activities, relaxation, constructive thinking, communication, and negotiation, taught in a classroom-style format teens tolerate well. It is one of the most-studied adolescent depression treatments in existence and the direct ancestor of many school and clinic programs in use today.
The matching Student Workbook is also free from KPCHR. The separate parent-group manual is a commercial publication and is not freely licensed, so it is not listed here.
Run it with these materials
The kids' CBT and communication worksheets carry the course's core skills, and the activation sheets match its pleasant-activities module.
This manual is a publication of Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. Therapy Resource is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, its publisher. The summary above is our own; always follow the manual itself and your clinical judgment. If you are in crisis, contact 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or call 911.