Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment

Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies. Unlike other books that may focus on one specific addiction, this book covers a wide range of addictions in adolescents, including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, eating, gambling, internet and video games, and sex addiction. Organized into three sections, the book begins with the classification and assessment of adolescent addiction. Section two has one chapter each on the aforementioned addictions, discussing for each the definition, epidemiology, risk factors, co-morbidity, course and outcome, and prevention and intervention. Section three discusses the assessment and treatment of co-morbid conditions in greater detail as well as the social and political implications of adolescent addictions.

Intended to be of practical use to clinicians treating adolescent addiction, the book contains a wealth of information that will be of use to the researcher as well. Contributors to the book represent the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.

About the Editor: Cecilia A. Essau is professor of developmental psychopathology at Roehampton University in London, UK. Specializing in child and adolescent psychopathology, she has been an author or editor of 12 previous books in child psychopathology and is author of over 100 research articles and book chapters in this area.

Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment

Editor: Cecilia A. Essau
Roehampton University, London

Table of Contents

Preface Cecilia A. Essau

Part 1. General Issues

Chapter 1. Foundations of Addictive Problems: Developmental, Social and Neurobiological Factors
Michele Preyde & Gerald Adams

Chapter 2. Classification and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
Ty A. Ridenour, Bethany C. Bray, Heather S. Scott, & Linda B. Cottler

Part II. Specific Adolescent Addiction

Chapter 3. Alcohol Use, Abuse and Dependence
Cecilia A. Essau & Delyse Hutchinson

Chapter 4. Cannabis Abuse and Dependence
Wayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt, & George Patton

Chapter 5. Tobacco Use and Dependence
Judith S. Brook, Kerstin Pahl, & David W. Brook

Chapter 6. Eating Addiction
David H. Gleaves & Janet D. Carter

Chapter 7. Gambling Practices among Youth: Etiology, Prevention and Treatment
Rina Gupta & Jeffrey L. Derevensky

Chapter 8. Internet and Video-game Addiction
Mark Griffiths

Chapter 9. Teen Sexual Addiction
Steve Sussman

Part III. Epilogue

Chapter 10. Comorbidity of Addictive Problems: Assessment and Treatment Implications
Cecilia A. Essau

Chapter 11. Social and Political Implications
Paul McArdle