Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents such as individual or group CBT usually are short-term treatments (i.e., often between six and 20 sessions) that focus on teaching youth and/or their parents specific skills. CBT differs from other therapy approaches by focusing on the ways that a child or adolescent’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected, and how they each affect one another. Because emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are all linked, CBT approaches allow for therapists to intervene at various points in the cycle.
These treatments have been proven to be effective in treating many psychological disorders among children and adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), behavior problems, and substance abuse.
I think CBT is good for ages above 11 not befor 11 because the cognitive development, thus behavioral therapy is very good to children less than 11
Play and art therapies are better. Cognitive therapy is not much successful however, children respond to placebo better. So object relations and attachment based therapies are also preferred.
Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with children and adolescents depending on the age of the child or adolescent and how the therapy is applied. There are evidences to support its efficacy. Please see contingency contracting below:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1974-32950-001
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/contingency-contracting
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