Treating Adolescents

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A unique guide to adolescent psychopathology, using adevelopmental approach Treating Adolescents is a comprehensive guide toadolescent mental health care, synthesizing evidence-based practiceand practice-based perspectives to give providers the best adviceavailable. By limiting the discussion to disorders which appearduring adolescence, this useful manual can delve more deeply intoeach to present extensive evidence and practice-based rationalesfor approaching a range of psychopathologies. This edition has beenrevised to reflect the changes in the DSM-5 and the ICD-10, withentirely new chapters on ADHD, learning and executive function,bipolar and mood disorders, sleep disorders, and suicide andself-injury. Coverage includes non-therapy interventions, such aspharmacological and environmental. The discussion of schizophreniaand psychotic disorders includes adolescent presentations ofPervasive Developmental Disorders and their relationship toclassical schizophrenia. In a developmental approach to adolescent psychopathology,different treatments are carefully integrated and matched topathogenic processes in an effort to disrupt causal loops. Thisbook provides in-depth guidance for providers seeking well-roundedtreatment plans, with detailed explanations and expert insight. * Understand disruptive behaviors and ADHD more deeply * Treat anxiety, depression, and mood disorders moreeffectively * Handle psychiatric traumas and related psychopathologies * Delve into substance abuse, self-harm, eating disorders, andmore Current scholarship favors developmental approaches topsychopathology and supports an emphasis on integrated treatmentpackages, including environmental, biologic, and psychologicalinterventions. With full integration of practice and research,Treating Adolescents is a comprehensive reference forconstructing a complete treatment strategy.

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Hans Steiner

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Abnormal Psychology Child & Adolescent Clinical Psychology Developmental Psychology Entwicklungspsychologie Klinische Psychologie / Kinder u. Jugendliche Psychologie Psychology Psychopathologie

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"This wonderful text, based both on empirical evidence andclinical wisdom, provides the front line clinician, the seriousstudent, and the educated lay person with a lucid and integratedview of a very complex field. The authors havesucceeded in providing state of the art tools to effectively treatpsychopathology in an age group that presents very specialchallenges." --Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., Professor Emeritus ofPsychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine "With this second edition, Hans Steiner and colleagues haveupdated their classic volume on TREATING ADOLESCENTS to include theexcitement and promise associated with 20 years of new developmentsin the field of adolescent mental health. Practitioners, studentsand interested lay audiences at every level will learn from, anddelight in, the wisdom they share." --Gregory K. Fritz, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry,Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University,School of Medicine; President, The American Academy of Child &Adolescent Psychiatry "This second edition of a soon to be classic provides key,updated information for the practitioner. A must-have foranyone interested in treating adolescents with behavioral or mooddisorders. Well organized conceptually, the authors have donea superb job in translating the latest in research into clinicallyuseful chapters." --Alan F. Schatzberg, MD; Kenneth T. Norris, Jr.Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,Stanford University School of Medicine; 136TH President, AmericanPsychiatric Association, 2009-2010
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