| Description |
x, 245 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Evidence-based practices series |
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Evidence-based practices series.
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| Contents |
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in children -- Adolescent disruptive behavior disorders and substance use disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Depressive disorders -- Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa -- Barriers to evidence-based practice and recommendations |
| Summary |
"Corcoran has suthored an exemplary volume. This will be an exceptional primary textbook for use3 in clinical courses based on a solid evidence-bassed approach to the topic of assessing and treteing children with mental health problems. This is a wonderful new practice textbook and is most highly recommended."---Bruce A. Thyer. Ph.D., Professor and former Dean, College of Social Work, Florida State Univeristy -- |
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"Corcoran's new book is a welcome addtiona to the growing empahsis on evidence-based treatement. This definitive reterence consolidates the evidence and provides up-to-date research on mental helath treatment for children and adolescents. This is one at the very few books that integrate research findings with clinical examples, A must-read book for evey mental health protessional who wants to stay current with the latest research and to better understand how to apply research to practice."---Craig Winston LeCory, Ph.D. Professor, School of Sociasl Work, Arizona State Univcersity -- |
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"Jacqueline Corcoran has produced an extremely useful practice text for teaching evidence-based mental health treatment of children and adolescents. This book goes further thant other similar texts by prociding case examples that address implementation issues and basrriers that are often encountered in practice situations. It also discusses situations where the evidence is not available for particular clients, for example how to wrok through practice decisions for applying evidence with ethnic minority clients and others. The applied case process offered in this book will enhance the teching of evidence-based practice and the practice-firendly style of the text will be welcomed by most students and practitioners of mental health."---Cynthia Franklin, Ph.D., Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health, University of Texas at Austin -- |
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"So you want to help children and adolescent with mental helath issues. do you? Well, lortunately, with this pratical book, mastering mental helath treatements with youth is greatly facilitated. Thanks to Corcoran's fine volume the job of treating youth is easier. The book covers the eight most common mental health problems of youngsters: if you are working with any of these conditions. then you simply must read this book."---Kevin Corcoran, Ph.D. J.D. Professor, Portland State University and Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania -- |
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Each chapter foucuses on a different diagnonsis such as ADHD oppositional defiant disorder conduct disorder substance use disorder. depressive disorders eating disorders. anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each chapter contains a critical review of the state of knowledge about a disorder, a summary of empitically-supported psychosocial and pharmacological treatments a case study, and a recommended research agenda In addition, all chapters are thoroughly gronded in a risk and resilience framework and focus on the contextual foctors that influence not only the developement of a disorder but the implementation and adaptation of evidence-based practices in the real world. -- |
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Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents is valuable resource for students researchers and clinicians both for its presentation of Cuttin-edge data and its emphasis on implications for social workers in training practice and research --Book Jacket |
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Mental health problems disrupt the lives of many young people and their families puttin them aty risk for instability as adults. This is particularly true for children from vulnerable populations such as those in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems. With the propsect of potentially due outcomes it is essential that professionals be well equipped to understand and treat mental health disorders early and effectively. Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents offers a sweeping synthesis of the reserch on treatment of DSM-defined mental disorders in youth appraising the state of available evidence and examining how evidence-based treatments address the biological psychological and social vairables that contribute to the developenment of disorders and the potential for recovery. -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Adolescent psychiatry.
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Child psychiatry.
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Evidence-based psychiatry.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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Evidence-Based Medicine.
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| LC no. |
2010007427 |
| ISBN |
0195375718 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780195375718 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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