Adolescent psychiatry : a contemporary perspective for health professionals /
Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. The prevalence of mood, anxiety, substance use and other psychiatric disorders among adolescents is high. However, medical professionals are not sufficiently trained about adolescent...
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: | [2013] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Health, medicine and human development
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110316612 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110316612.jpg |
Summary: |
Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. The prevalence of mood, anxiety, substance use and other psychiatric disorders among adolescents is high. However, medical professionals are not sufficiently trained about adolescent psychiatric disorders. Primary care providers correctly identify less than a fourth of youth with a depressive or anxiety disorder and many clinicians underestimate the importance of the problem of adolescent psychiatric illnesses and suicidal behavior. Multiple clinical, neurobiological, cultural and legal aspects of psychiatric disorders in adolescents are discussed in this book. |
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1 online resource(xvi,244pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
ISBN: | 9783110316612(electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | RJ503 |
CLC: | R749.94 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author index -- Education of health professionals about adolescent psychiatry / 1. Adolescents with psychiatric disorders: brain structural and functional changes / 2. Ecstasy and the serotonin syndrome / 3. Testosterone levels and suicidal behavior / 4. Buprenorphine in the treatment of non-suicidal self-injury / 5. Antidepressants for major depressive disorder in children and adolescents / 6. Suicide prevention in depressed adolescents / 7. Child sexual abuse and suicide in adolescents and adults / 8. Improving future physicians responses to adolescent maltreatment / 9. Bullying, psychiatric pathology and suicidal behavior / 10. Dating violence and suicidal behavior in adolescents / 11. Post-traumatic stress disorder, medical illness and suicidal behavior / 12. Prevention of suicidal behavior in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder / 13. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and dual disorders: educational needs for an underdiagnosed condition / 14. Cannabis and youth seeking treatment for primary mood or anxiety concerns -- 15. Military sexual trauma as a determinant in the development of mental and physical illness in male and female veterans / 16. Educating medical professionals about suicide prevention among military veterans / 17. Does the physician density affect suicide rates among adolescents and young adults? / 18. Suicidal behavior in Indian adolescents / 19. American juvenile justice system: history in the making / 20. About the editors -- 21. About Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the James J. Peters Veterans Administration Medical Center, New York City, United States -- 22. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel -- Index. |