Treating Adolescents [Paperback]

Hans Steiner (Author), Irvin D. Yalom (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0787902063 | ISBN-13: 978-0787902063 | Publication Date: January 15, 1996 | Edition: 1

A Dynamic and Challenging Age Group

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique

It is an ambitious undertaking to distill the knowledge base, summarize the clinical wisdom, and provide vivid case illustrations for the full range of psychopathology presenting in adolescence. This first rate book succeeds on all counts while conveying the challenge and excitement of working with teenagers who have psychiatric problems.
--Gregory K. Fritz, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine

This concise, up-to-date summary of adolescent development presents step-by-step guidance for effective clinical treatment of issues such as anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, somatization, conduct disorders, and psychosis.

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"Treating Adolescents presents a concise, up-to-date summary of adolescent development and step-by-step guidance for the effective clinical treatment of specific disorders." (Adolescence)

"Treating Adolescents offers the reader a concise biopsychosocial biopsy of adolescence and a clear, comprehensive textbook description of the important issues in the treatment of the major psychopathologies occurring during this most perplexing development stage of human life." (Lawrence Stone, M.D., president, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

"It is an ambitious undertaking to distill the knowledge base, summarize the clinical wisdom, and provide vivid case illustrations for the full range of psychopathology presenting in adolescence. This first rate book succeeds on all counts while conveying the challenge and excitement of working with teenagers who have psychiatric problems." (Gregory K. Fritz, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brown University School of Medicine)

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When children enter adolescence they experience rapid and complex changes in their biology, psychology, and social standing. Seemingly overnight, teenagers can manifest dramatic new syndromes as old ones persist in ever-evolving shapes and forms. Understandably, clinical treatment of this age group is a dynamic and challenging adventure. Treating Adolescents presents a concise up-to-date summary of adolescent development and step-by-step guidance for the effective clinical treatment of specific issues--such as anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, somatization, conduct disorders, and psychosis. Written by experts in the treatment of adolescents, each of the contributors offers a blend of cutting-edge knowledge and clinical techniques in the area of their particular sub-specialty. The volume is a jargon-free resource for front-line clinicians including psychologists, social workers, teachers, counselors, and pediatricians. Treating Adolescence offers a wealth of examples and specific suggestions to improve treatment skills, including information on:

• Creating a team-based approach that includes parents, teachers, social workers, pediatricians, and the mental health team.
• Dealing effectively with issues such as identity, suicide, and risk taking.
• Accessing when it is appropriate to adopt a parental role and how to quickly step-back into the role of professional.
• Recognizing the specific syndromes as they occur in the course of adolescent development.
• Responding to alcohol and drug addiction in this vulnerable population group.
• Structuring a treatment plan that is appropriate to adolescence.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (January 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787902063
• ISBN-13: 978-0787902063
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #314,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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Interesting information. Althought this is a textbook, it reads easily and doesn't bog down in unnecessary jargon. I recommend it for those who want to understand adolescent behavior and how to work with it.