Talk:FRIENDS program

The FRIENDS program is a suite of mental health care programs that treats mental health issues such as OCD, anxiety, depression, autism and stress in children and young adults. The program is usually administered by a teacher to an entire class or by a mental health or childcare professional to a smaller group of the appropriate age.

History
The FRIENDS programs originally stem from the research of psychologist Phillip Kendall who developed the Coping Cat workbook (1980) which was used to treat children who were diagnosed with over-anxiety, separation anxiety or Avoidant personality disorder. In 1998 the Coping Koala was adapted from the Coping Cat program to administer the treatment in a group based format.

Further research was applied to analyse the treatment success of Coping Koala, and the result identified the need for a break-down of the program to better appeal to different age groups, this led to expanding the program into — FRIENDS for Children aimed at patients 7 to 11 years of age, and FRIENDS for Youth 12 to 16 years.

In 1999 another round of research was performed which led to the production of a third edition of FRIENDS for Children, which incorporated the research feedback to tailor the program to being more teacher-friendly. Further research and development from 2000 onward caused iterative improvements toward the FRIENDS programs to make them what they are today.

Format
The FRIENDS program is broken up into the following sets for age groups:
 * Fun Friends (4 - 7 years)
 * Friends for life (8 - 11 years)
 * My Friends (12 - 15 years)
 * Adult Resilience (16 - 18 year)

Translations and International Use
The FRIENDS program is currently administered int he following countries:

The FRIENDS program has been translated into Russian, Arabic and Spanish and it was originally written in English.

Author
The Friends program was authored by Professor Paula Barrett who still works and administers the programs.

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