The Children's Health and Illness Recovery Program (CHIRP) - Clinician Guide is a structured treatment program, based on research and clinical experience, designed to help adolescents with chronic illness, and their families, improve the teen's functioning and quality of life.

Youth with chronic illness, particularly when accompanied by debilitating, painful and/or fatiguing symptoms, face challenges that may prove disruptive to their normal physical, psychological and social developmental trajectories. Derived from six decades of combined experience from authors, Bryan D. Carter, William G. Kronenberger, Eric L. Scott, and Christine E. Brady, The Children's Health and Illness Recovery Program (CHIRP) is an interdisciplinary cognitive behavioral and family systems-based treatment program designed to maximize the independent functioning of teens with chronic illness. The CHIRP Clinician Guide is a detailed outline for implementing this manualized treatment protocol over the course of twelve sessions and provides clear guidance as to the philosophy, pragmatics and art of working with this challenging pediatric population. Designed to accompany the CHIRP Teen and Family Workbook, The Clinician Guide equips practitioners with specific assessment measures and the tools needed to establish a collaborative treatment team approach that incorporates the skills of the CHIRP clinician, primary care and specialty physicians, and the various other healthcare (e.g., physical therapists, occupational therapists, etc.) and educational professionals critical to the successful management and treatment of these youth.

The long respected Children's Health and Illness Recovery Program guide and workbook has helped many children with chronic illnesses, their families, and the clinicians who work with them. This practical, easy to use compendium of clinical materials is a must-have resource for mental health professionals to provide quality evidence-based care in an individual or group format.