Overview
When children enter adolescence they experience rapid and complex changes in their biology, psychology, and social standing. Seemingly overnight, teenagers can manifest dramatic new syndromes as old ones persist in ever-evolving shapes and forms. Understandably, clinical treatment of this age group is a dynamic and challenging adventure.
Treating Adolescents presents a concise up-to-date summary of adolescent development and step-by-step guidance for the effective clinical treatment of specific issues—such as anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, somatization, conduct disorders, and psychosis. Written by experts in the treatment of adolescents, each of the contributors offers a blend of cutting-edge knowledge and clinical techniques in the area of their particular sub-specialty.
The volume is a jargon-free resource for front-line clinicians including psychologists, social workers, teachers, counselors, and pediatricians. Treating Adolescence offers a wealth of examples and specific suggestions to improve treatment skills, including information on:
- Creating a team-based approach that includes parents, teachers, social workers, pediatricians, and the mental health team.
- Dealing effectively with issues such as identity, suicide, and risk taking.
- Accessing when it is appropriate to adopt a parental role and how to quickly step-back into the role of professional.
- Recognizing the specific syndromes as they occur in the course of adolescent development.
- Responding to alcohol and drug addiction in this vulnerable population group.
- Structuring a treatment plan that is appropriate to adolescence.
Covers disruptive behavioral disorders/substance use, abuse/ depression/anxiety disorders/chronic illness, somatization.
Synopsis
When children enter adolescence they experience rapid and complex changes in their biology, psychology, and social standing. Seemingly overnight, teenagers can manifest dramatic new syndromes as old ones persist in ever-evolving shapes and forms. Understandably, clinical treatment of this age group is a dynamic and challenging adventure. Treating Adolescents presents a concise up-to-date summary of adolescent development and step-by-step guidance for the effective clinical treatment of specific issues—such as anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, somatization, conduct disorders, and psychosis. Written by experts in the treatment of adolescents, each of the contributors offers a blend of cutting-edge knowledge and clinical techniques in the area of their particular sub-specialty. The volume is a jargon-free resource for front-line clinicians including psychologists, social workers, teachers, counselors, and pediatricians. Treating Adolescence offers a wealth of examples and specific suggestions to improve treatment skills, including information on:
- Creating a team-based approach that includes parents, teachers, social workers, pediatricians, and the mental health team.
- Dealing effectively with issues such as identity, suicide, and risk taking.
- Accessing when it is appropriate to adopt a parental role and how to quickly step-back into the role of professional.
- Recognizing the specific syndromes as they occur in the course of adolescent development.
- Responding to alcohol and drug addiction in this vulnerable population group.
- Structuring a treatment plan that is appropriate to adolescence.
Booknews
Contains nine contributions from psychologists and psychiatrists on: general principles and special problems, disruptive behavioral disorders, substance use and abuse, depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, chronic illness and somatization, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, and psychiatric trauma and related psychopathologies. Emphasis is on techniques for the "front-line" practitioner. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Treating Adolescents presents a concise, up-to-date summary of adolescent development and step-by-step guidance for the effective clinical treatment of specific disorders." (Adolescence)
"Treating Adolescents offers the reader a concise biopsychosocial biopsy of adolescence and a clear, comprehensive textbook description of the important issues in the treatment of the major psychopathologies occurring during this most perplexing development stage of human life." (Lawrence Stone, M.D., president, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
"It is an ambitious undertaking to distill the knowledge base, summarize the clinical wisdom, and provide vivid case illustrations for the full range of psychopathology presenting in adolescence. This first rate book succeeds on all counts while conveying the challenge and excitement of working with teenagers who have psychiatric problems." (Gregory K. Fritz, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine)