Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach [Hardcover]

Hans Steiner (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 078796154X | ISBN-13: 978-0787961541 | Publication Date: March 29, 2004 | Edition: 1

The Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents is an essential guide for mental healthcare professionals to the theory and practice of mental health treatment for children up to age nineteen. Written by a panel of the best-known names in the field, this systematic and comprehensive resource includes the most current information on developmental science as it pertains to treatment, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, sociotherapy, and the integration of treatments.

Editorial Reviews

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"4 Stars!.... This book is remarkable in a number of ways." (Doody's Book Review)

“Each chapter in itself is an enjoyment…warmly recommended…” (International Journal of Adolescent Medical Health, Vol. 16, No. 3 2004)

"...specialist clinician will find much to agree with here, but more importantly, some material that may extend ... specialist’s professional horizons." (The Journal of Mental Health, April 2006)

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“This handbook, edited and written by leading experts, is unique in several respects: It puts mental health interventions in young people into a developmental context and bridges the gap between interventions in major domains such as pharmacology, psychotherapy, and sociotherapy. It gives proper advice and clear orientation and should be read by everyone who treats children and adolescents.”
--Helmut Remschmidt, M.D., professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Philipps-University, Marburg (Germany), and president, International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions

“Hans Steiner has assembled the leading figures in the field of developmental sciences and child and adolescent psychiatry in this superb new volume. The comprehensiveness of scope and the scholarship of the contributions will make this the definitive book on treatments in child and adolescent psychiatry.”
--Glen O. Gabbard, Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis, and professor, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine

“At last, a comprehensive psychiatric text based on biopsychosocial development and goal-directed treatment processes rather than reductionist diagnostic categories. This is the first wave of the future.”
--Barry Nurcombe, M. D., emeritus professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Vanderbilt University and the University of Queensland

“The psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents is rapidly evolving into a scientifically based, diverse array of interventions. This unique volume does justice to the state of the field without sacrificing any of the complexities we encounter in treating young patients. I have no doubt that it will become a standard in the field of developmental psychiatry.”
--Alan F. Schatzberg, M. D., Kenneth T. Norris, Jr., professor and chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine

“Mindless polypharmacy is a threat to our field—our patients and trainees deserve better. This volume presents an integrated view of available interventions. I am certain that it will become a valuable resource for any serious student of development psychopathology and child and adolescent psychiatry.”
--James F. Leckman, M.D., Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, director of research, Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1120 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078796154X
• ISBN-13: 978-0787961541
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.2 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,032,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hans Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and received his Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ. = M.D.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He completed his residency in adult Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Steiner is Professor Emeritus (Active) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychiatry and Human Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine, and Guest Professor, Medical University of Vienna. He also is a founder of The Pegasus Physicians at Stanford, a group of doctors who write creatively.
He has authored over 500 published articles, abstracts, reviews, books and book chapters. He is the editor of three volumes on Treating Preschool Children, Treating School Age Children, and Treating Adolescents. He is the editor of the Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach, and the forthcoming Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry. He is one of three editors of a German-American Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards of over 70 scientific journals and publishing houses. He is very active in public service.
He has lectured widely in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia and regularly provides keynote addresses at professional meetings.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mental health interventions in children and adolescents, August 20, 2004

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Joav Merrick (Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach (Hardcover)

This is a serious book on developmental psychopathology in children and adolescents edited by a very competent person. professor Hans Steiner, who was born and educated in Vienna, Austria (it seems we have had many excellent physicians coming out of that town over the last 100 years), but received his expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his adult psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Today he is professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine with several important textbooks and many hundreds of published scientific articles.
This is a first edition on the developmental science and evidence based clinical practice for children and youth with mental health problems with a focus on intervention. This book has 36 chapters with 54 mainly American contributors divided into four parts: developmental science, psychopharmacology, psyvhotherapy and sociotherapy.
Each chapter in itself is an enjoyment, but it was nice to find a whole chapter on research methodology in clinical trials by Kirti Saxena and Christine Blasey, both from Stanford University.
This handbook and in fact tewxtbook is warmly recommended for students in psychopathology from the field of both child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]

Gideon Vardi, MD
Developmental pediatrician, Zusman Child Development Center, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]