Child and Adolescent Mental Health Arena

Violence and Serious Theft

Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood

• Edited by Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Helene Raskin White.

Published February 2008

In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. Violence and Serious Theft is unique in that it combines the strengths of three disciplines to explain delinquency in…
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Handbook of Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity Treatment

• Edited by William T. O'Donohue, Brie A. Moore and Barbara J. Scott.

Published December 2007

This volume brings together behavioral, medical, and public health approaches and provides the knowledge necessary for a wide range of practitioners to effectively address the current obesity epidemic among children and adolescents. The book addresses several themes in pediatric and adolescent…
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Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and the Emerging Person

A Selection of Papers from the Life Work of Louis Sander

• By Louis Sander.
• Edited by Gherardo Amadei, and Ilaria Bianchi.

Published November 2007

This collection of previously published papers can be viewed as a story of the gradual emergence of an overarching idea through the course of a life’s work. The idea concerns the way emerging knowledge of developmental processes, biological systems, and therapeutic process can be integrated in…
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 30

The Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

• Edited by Lois T. Flaherty.

Published October 2007

The period of adolescence can be a time of great creativity, as new intellectual capacities emerge, and as the individual adolescent attempts to make sense out of inner and outer experience. Volume 30 of Adolescent Psychiatry addresses the ways in which adolescent experience is transmuted into…
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Pharmacological Treatment of College Students with Psychological Problems

• Edited by Leighton Whitaker, and Stewart Cooper.

Published September 2007

Get valuable insights into best practices and procedures for treatment Mental health practitioners across the country are increasingly treating students by combining the use of psychotropic medication with psychotherapy. Pharmacological Treatment of College Students with Psychological Problems…
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Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

• By Anthony P. Jurich.

Published September 2007

This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to replace other forms of therapy but to augment the therapist’s own therapeutic style. The book…
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Handbook of Childhood Behavioral Issues

Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

• Edited by Thomas P. Gullotta, and Gary M. Blau.

Published September 2007

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the mental health field, particularly related to strategies that foster the positive behavior and healthy mental state of children. As the Handbook of Childhood Behavioral Issues indicates, however, the causes of childhood behavioral, physical, and…
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Adolescent Identities

A Collection of Readings

• Edited by Deborah L. Browning.

Published August 2007

Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis. The volume reveals there is no single "normal" adolescent, nor is there a…
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review

• By Robert L. Hendren, and Hong Shen.

Published July 2007

Both general and child/adolescent psychiatrists will find the third edition of this book valuable in preparing for their re-certification exams. The last ten years have brought tremendous changes to the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The revision of this book incorporates recent…
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Choosing to Heal

Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children

• By Laura Ellsworth.

Published April 2007

The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this vulnerable population. Choosing to Heal breaks new ground as the first resource to use Reality Therapy and…
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