Treating Adolescents

A Complete Guide to Adolescent Mental Health Care Includes Latest Research and Insights from Clinical Practice Effective treatment of adolescent mental health disorders requires collaboration, empathy, and a robust understanding of the many factors that influence this challenging population. To that end, Treating Adolescents targets the mental health issues that onset during the teen years. This book incorporates evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence, resulting in well rounded discussions and inviting integrated treatments that reflect the complexity of adolescence. Treating Adolescents provides guidance for the effective treatment of the most common disorders that first appear during adolescence, including anxiety disorder, depression, eating disorders, conduct disorders, and psychosis. In addition, this Second Edition includes several new chapters on emerging diagnoses. New to this edition: Updates based on DSM-5 and ICD-10 revisions Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Evidence-based perspectives on suicide and self-injury New chapters on mood disorders and sleep disorders Learning and executive cognitive functions Taking a developmental approach to adolescent mental health, Treating Adolescents is a forward-thinking text that contains contributions from nearly 40 of the leading practitioners and researchers in the field. With such a wealth of expert guidance, this update to the classic text will prove to be an invaluable resource for any frontline clinician.