Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk [Hardcover]

Yifrah Kaminer (Editor), Oscar G. Bukstein (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078903171X | ISBN-13: 978-0789031716 | Publication Date: December 31, 2007 | Edition: 1

Learn more effective treatments for adolescents with abuse substance disorder

Dual diagnosis of adolescent substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders must be treated simultaneously to be effective. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors presents leading experts offering insightful viewpoints and dynamic suggestions on how to best provide simultaneous treatment and integrated services to these youths. The book covers the state of the art in the field of substance use disorders, reviews different psychiatric disorders and high risk behaviors, and then addresses the issue of integrated services and ethical, legal, and policy issues pertaining to this population.

In the field of adolescent substance abuse treatment, dual diagnosis is the rule rather than the exception, making assessment and treatment complicated. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors comprehensively discusses the magnitude, etiology, and characteristics of problems and substance abuse disorders (SUD), and extensively explains ways to assess, treat, and develop services for adolescents. This unique text closely examines the assessment and treatment of psychiatric comorbid disorders among adolescents such as depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and high risk behaviors including suicidal behavior, self-harm behavior, and gambling behavior. The text is extensively referenced and several chapters include helpful tables and figures to clearly display the data.

Topics examined in Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors include:

etiology of adolescent substance abuse
assessment
treatment planning
psychosocial interventions
pharmacological interventions
disruptive behavior disorders
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
depression
bi-polar mood disorder
anxiety disorders
trauma and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
suicidal and self-harm behaviors
schizophrenia
eating disorder
gambling behavior

Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, addictions specialists, counselors, educators, students, and drug court professionals who provide assessment and treatment for youths with substance use disorders.

Editorial Reviews

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An outstanding collection of examinations into the use of sexual content in advertising and media... Explores a range of timely issues of import to scholars and media professionals. Among the many strengths of this book are the diverse methodologies and approaches to the study of sex in advertising media. Readers will not only have a better understanding of how sex is used to sell, but also of the effectiveness and potential social consequences of sexual strategies and practices... Includes some of the best contemporary thinking on the complex relationships between sexual imagery, advertising, and consumer responses to the use of sex to sell products, services, and people! -- Dwight E. Brooks, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Mass Communications, Jackson State University

Excellent... Provides the reader with an overview of this robust area of social science inquiry. Each work draws us in for an enlightening and thought provoking experience that clearly stimulates additional discussion and no doubt, debate... This collection of excellent works brings us all a step closer in our scientific journey. -- Michael S. LaTour, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Marketing, College of Business, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Important and scintillating... Mirrors the effects of sexuality's role in society, including across cultures, as it manifests in a myriad of ways. . . . Promotion managers wanting to understand the full scope of sexuality across various media, as well as particular media-specific effects and methods for researching them, would do well to read this book. This includes those promotion managers who focus on Integrated Marketing Communications and want to understand how different media and creative platforms embody and use sexuality so as to be able better design integrated campaigns. -- Stephen Gould, PhD, Professor of Marketing at Baruch College, The City University of New York

Unique... Provides a good overview of the sexual content of global and American mass media editorial, entertainment and commercial messages in a variety of media. . . . Enables mass media effects and advertising scholars to develop a new appreciation of how research streams from several areas combine to provide a more complete picture of mediated sexual content and audience or consumer responses to that content. . . . Useful to teachers of mass media or advertising effects courses. . . . Provides a good introduction to the study of sexual content in different media and advertising using varying methodological approaches. . . . Could be used in a media effects course to show how and why sexual content is used in different media outlets. . . . Provides examples and operationalizations of the major variables and methods often used in research on sexual content. Consumer and audience responses to sexual content are measured and explained. Thus, students learn to examine sexual content and its effects using a variety of approaches. For example, students learn about content analytic, case study and experimental research on sexual content and responses to that content in one volume. -- Jan LeBlanc Wicks, PhD, Professor of Journalism (Advertising), University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 532 pages
• Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc.; 1 edition (December 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078903171X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789031716
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,018,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)