REVIEW OF STRESS INOCULATION TRAINING WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS -ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Stress inoculation training (SIT) is a cognitive-behavioral interventi on that has been applied to a wide array of problems and populations. Although it has received considerable attention in the adult treatment literature, less research has been conducted with child and adolescen t populations. Its mort appealing qualities include its applicability to a wide variety of populations, settings, and problems, the structur ed training format it offers practitioners in which to match intervent ion strategies to identified individual-specific deficits, and format for programming generalization. In this article, the authors provide a n overview of SIT, including a description of phase components and iss ues related to child and adolescent problems, and they review the trea tment studies with these populations. Of the eight studies reviewed, n one reported an attempt to identify the nature of trainees' performanc e, problems, differentially employing intervention strategies to indiv idual-specific deficits, nor programming for generalization. Implicati ons for SIT with children and adolescents are offered.