The adolescent in turmoil : a monograph of the International Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

An in-depth overview, this book examines major current problems faced by today's adolescents. Authored by 16 leading international experts, the book presents some of the latest research on the depressed and suicidal adolescent, assessment procedures, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments, eating disorders, and violence. Scholarly, yet practical, this volume will be a vital source of information to all scholars, mental health professionals, and students concerned with adolescent behavior.The book commences with a broad array of developmental issues in normal and pathological adolescents ranging from self-esteem, gender-identity disorders, attachment and detachment, borderline psychodynamics, psychosexual trauma, and finally, dynamic factors in the resilient adolescent. Next, the book focuses on depression, the suicidal adolescent, and a study of double suicide attempts. The aggressive adolescent is addressed from the broad array of sociological, psychological, biological, and psychopharmacological aspects of aggressive behavior, as well as an interesting study of parents battered by adolescents. Finally, an integrated approach to adolescents with eating disorders and anorexia nervosa is discussed. This book will be a source of information for all scholars, mental health professionals, students, and allied professionals concerned with the problems of adolescents. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 5 1. Adolescence in America......Page 11 2. Self-Esteem in Adolescence......Page 31 3. Attachment and Detachment in Adolescence in Relationship to Gender Differences......Page 41 4. Development of the Capacity for Anticipation in Adolescence......Page 51 5. Differences in Male and Female Psychopathology Associated with Psychosexual Trauma......Page 57 6. Resilience in Adolescence......Page 62 7. The Adolescent and Death......Page 83 8. An Analysis of Adolescent Suicide Attempts......Page 92 9. Double Suicide Attempts in Adolescence......Page 101 10. Pyschotherapy of Adolescent Depression......Page 105 11. Adolescent Aggressive Behavior......Page 119 12. Battered Parents......Page 134 13. Psychopharmacology of Aggressive Behavior......Page 144 14. Adolescents Who Kill......Page 153 15. Anorexia as an Example of a Psychosomatic Illness......Page 171 16. Treating the Whole Adolescent......Page 182 Index......Page 195 About the Editor and Contributors......Page 201

An in-depth overview of major current problems faced by today's adolescents.

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Sixteen chapters focus on the current major conflicts of adolescents and address adolescent mental health issues. Sections cover developmental issues, including self-esteem, gender identity disorders, and resilience; the diagnosis and treatment of the depressed and suicidal adolescent; research, clinical, epidemiologic, and psychopharmacologic aspects of the aggressive adolescent; and eating disorders, including an integrative outpatient approach and a discussion of anorexia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

This overview examines problems currently faced by adolescents. Sixteen experts present research into depression and the suicidal adolescent, assessment procedures, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments, eating disorders and violence.