Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders: What we know and what we don't know. A Research Agenda for Improving the Mental Health of our Youth [Hardcover]

Dwight L. Evans (Editor), Edna B. Foa (Editor), Raquel E. Gur (Editor), Herbert Hendin (Editor), Charles P. O'Brien (Editor), Martin E. P. Seligman (Editor), B. Timothy Walsh (Editor)

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Hardcover: 832 pages
Publisher: OUP USA (18 Aug 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0195173643
ISBN-13: 978-0195173642
Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 18 x 5.1 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 888,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"This is an extremely useful tool for all mental health professionals."--Doody's
."..the contributors have skillfully summarized and synthesized a vast amount of information, provided an evenhanded evaluation of existing research, and made sound suggestions for future research."--PsycCRITIQUES
."..provides an excellent evidence-based review of each of the topics and manages to weave in clinically important findings that help to keep the information both practical and tangible to the clinician. The review of the data on how to define each disorder, how to treat it, and how to prevent it make the book one that must be read by anyone involved in the routine care of adolescents. It is a clear and well-written book that should provide an evidence-based approach to the thoughtful care of adolescents, and it should be a ready reference on the shelf of any physician caring for adolescents."--New England Journal of Medicine

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Following on the heels of the widely-acclaimed, updated edition of Nathan and Gorman's A Guide to Treatments That Work (OUP, 2002), A Call for Treatments and Preventions that Work for Adolescents brings together a distinguished group of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists to provide a cohesive, evidence-based guide to treatments and preventions that work for adolescents with mental disorders. The project, funded by the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in conjunction with the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, seeks to address mental disorders in the teenage years when support is still available from home and school and while behaviour and the brain are still "plastic". Seven commissions established by the Annenberg Foundation pool their expertise to address the state of our knowledge on adolescent anxiety, schizophrenia, substance and alcohol abuse, depression and bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and suicide. Individual chapters thoroughly define each disorder, offer empirically-tested treatments, discuss prevention, and suggest a research agenda based on what we know and don't yet know. The volume also incorporates the latest research on positive youth development, which addresses how we can fully prepare young people to be happy and successful throughout their lives rather than focusing simply on ensuring that teenagers are not engaged in risky behaviours. Integrating the work of eminent scholars in both psychology and psychiatry, this work will be an essential volume for academics and practising clinicians.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Work on Adolescence, 9 Aug 2008

By Kathleen M. Herrick - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders: What we know and what we don't know. A Research Agenda for Improving the Mental Health of our Youth (Hardcover)

This hardbound tome (818 pages total) is an invaluable reference for the mental health professional who works with adolescents. It was a an impressive project , the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative, sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Public Policy Center that addressed what is known about mental health disorders in the adolescent years. Six commissions with distinguished scholars contributed their expertise on adolescent depression and bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse disorders and youth suicide. Each section is clear and thorough conceptually and also provides various treatment modalities and prevention strategies. There are also helpful graphs and charts incorporated throughout. This book has current research, lucid summaries and conclusions. In addition to the main focus of mental illness, this book includes the important work of the seventh commission---Beyond Disorder, the positive perspective on youth development which deals with how we can help our youth prepare to lead happy successful lives. The final chapters deal with the stigma of mental illness, the role of primary care doctors and the role of the front-line people who deal with adolescents: school-based mental health professionals. This work is valuable not only for the scholars, the clinicians and the parents of adolescents but the policy makers who make the decisions affecting the lives of our youth.

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for Child Mental Health Practitioners, 25 Sep 2010

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This review is from: Treating and preventing adolescent mental health disorders: What we know and what we don't know. A Research Agenda for Improving the Mental Health of our Youth (Hardcover)

A must have for anyone in the Mental Health field who works with adolescents. Valuable information to aid in diagnosis and treatment.

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