Main description:

Systematic, authoritative, and timely, this is an outstanding reference and text for anyone working with or studying adolescents. More than 50 leading experts comprehensively review current knowledge on adolescent externalizing disorders, internalizing disorders, developmental disorders, personality and health-related disorders, gender identity and sexual disorders, and maltreatment and trauma. Chapters identify the core features of each disorder; explore its etiology, course, and outcome; address diagnostic issues specific to adolescents; and describe effective assessment and treatment approaches. The book also provides an integrative conceptual framework for understanding both healthy and maladaptive adolescent development.

Contents:

I. Introduction

1. Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Adolescents: Overview and Issues, David A. Wolfe and Eric J. Mash

2. Development and Psychopathology in Adolescence, Grayson N. Holmbeck, Deborah Friedman, Mona Abad, and Barbara Jandasek

3. Interventions for Adolescent Psychopathology: Linking Treatment and Prevention, Jody Kamon, Patrick H. Tolan, and Deborah Gorman-Smith

II. Externalizing Disorders

4. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Russell A. Barkley

5. Conduct Problems, Robert J. McMahon and Julie S. Kotler

6. Substance Use Disorders, Sandra A. Brown and Ana M. Abrantes

III. Internalizing Disorders

7. Anxiety Disorders, Philip C. Kendall, Kristina A. Hedtke, and Sasha G. Aschenbrand

8. Mood Disorders, Karen D. Rudolph, Constance Hammen, and Shannon E. Daley

9. Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Behaviors, David B. Goldston, Stephanie Sergent Daniel, and Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold

IV. Developmental Disorders

10. Mental Retardation, Robert M. Hodapp, Ellie Kazemi, Beth A. Rosner, and Elisabeth M. Dykens

11. Learning Disabilities, Orly Lipka and Linda S. Siegel

12. Autism Spectrum Disorders, Steven G. Spector and Fred R. Volkmar

V. Personality and Health-Related Disorders

13. Personality Disorders, Jeffrey G. Johnson, Elizabeth Bromley, Robert F. Bornstein, and Joel R. Sneed

14. Eating Disorders, James Lock and Daniel le Grange

15. Health and Chronic Illness, Ronald T. Brown, Alexandra Boeving, Angela LaRosa, and Laura Arnstein Carpenter

VI. Gender Identity and Sexual Disorders

16. Gender Identity Disorder, Kenneth J. Zucker

17. Sexual Risk Behavior, Beth A. Kotchick, Lisa Armistead, and Rex L. Forehand

18. Deviant Sexual Behavior, Howard E. Barbaree and Calvin M. Langton

VII. Maltreatment and Trauma

19. Relationship Violence, Ernest N. Jouriles, David A. Wolfe, Edward Garrido, and Anna McCarthy

20. Abuse and Trauma, David A. Wolfe, Jennine S. Rawana, and Deborah Chiodo