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Is psychological intervention with children more complex than intervention with adults? What methods do you consider to be most effective with younger populations? Provide the rationale for your response based on scientific evidence from a professional literature.

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It's hard to say if psychological intervention in children is any more complex than with adults; each brings there own uniqueness and issues. There are disorders that are shared both in adults an children, PTSD, victim of abuse, and addiction, that intervention works about the same in most cases. Then there are disorders specifically in childhood, ...

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