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.

Introduction ix

Contributors xxix

1 General Principles 1
Hans Steiner, Rebecca Hall, and Julia Huemer

2 Disruptive Behavior Disorders 47
Whitney Daniels, Michael B. Kelly, Kathleen Ares, Katie Kaszynski, and Niranjan Karnik

3 Attention–Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) 79
Michael B. Kelly

4 Learning and Executive Cognitive Functions 109
Ahmed Khan, Brianna Bendixsen, Lynne Baldwin, Diana Barrett, and Richard Abbey

5 Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence 141
Rebecca Hall and Anna Lembke

6 Anxiety Disorders, Tics, and Trichotillomania 165
Margo Thienemann, Rebecca Hall, Michael Bloch, and James Leckman

7 Depression 197
Julia Huemer, Rebecca Hall, Shelby Drazan, and Kirti Saxena

8 Bipolar and Mood Disorders in Adolescents 223
Kiki Chang, Rebecca Hall, Steve Khachi, Meghan Howe, and Manpreet Singh

9 Psychiatric Trauma and Related Psychopathologies 251
Nicholas T. Bott and Victor G. Carrión

10 Self–Harm and Suicidal Behavior 279
Pascale Stemmle and Jennifer Hughes

11 Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders 309
Shivani Verma Chmura, David R. DeMaso, and Richard J. Shaw

12 Eating Disorders in Adolescents 339
James Lock, Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick, and Erica P. Ragan

13 Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and Autism Spectrum Disorders 369
Khyati Brahmbhatt, Margo Thienemann, and Richard J. Shaw

14 Sleep Disorders 403
Rafael Pelayo and Rebecca Hall

Author Index 435

Subject Index 437

HANS STEINER, MD, is Professor Emeritus (Active) of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has authored hundreds of scholarly articles, in addition to editing two successful treatment guides: Treating Preschool Children and Treating School Age Children.

REBECCA HALL, BA, is a research assistant in Professor Steiner′s lab. She has coauthored four peer–reviewed journal articles and three psychiatric textbook chapters.