[1] It was designed by Philip C. Kendall, PhD, ABPP, and colleagues at the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University.
While the therapist follows a treatment manual, the youth uses the Coping cat workbook to guide completion of the exercises and to aid involvement and skill acquisition.
[6] Based on the numerous rigorous research evaluations, the program has met the criteria for an "empirically supported treatment".
[7] The program has been evaluated in several randomized clinical trials with one-year follow-up data conducted both in the United States,[8][9] Norway,[10] and in Australia.
[14] Coping Cat has also been found to be effective in treating children with anxiety with high-function autism spectrum disorder.