Adolescent psychiatry : a contemporary perspective for health professionals / edited by Leo Sher, Joav Merrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sher, Leo., Editor.

Contributor:

Merrick, Joav, 1950-

Sher, Leo.

Series:

Health, Medicine and Human Development

Health, medicine, and human development

Standardized Title:

Adolescent psychiatry (Walter de Gruyter & Co.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adolescent psychiatry.

Adolescent psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem which is relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. According to the results of The National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), the lifetime prevalence of anxiety, behavior, mood, and substance use disorders among adolescents was 31.9%, 19.1%, 14.3%, and 11.4%, respectively. Approximately 40% of participants in this survey with one class of disorder also met criteria for another class of lifetime disorder. Comorbidity is increasingly recognized as a key feature of mental disorders among adolescents. Female adolescents are more likely than males to have mood and anxiety disorders, but less likely to have behavioral and substance use disorders. Regretfully, medical professionals are not sufficiently trained about adolescent psychiatric disorders. For example, primary care providers correctly identify less than a fourth of youth with a depressive or anxiety disorder. Also, many clinicians underestimate the importance of the problem of adolescent psychiatric illnesses and suicidal behavior. Lack of skilled medical providers impedes the delivery of needed services to adolescents with mental health issues. This coupled with a lag in the ability of primary health care services to incorporate psychiatric interventions, and a failure of public health initiatives to pay attention to adolescent mental health problems has led to continuing gaps in care over decades despite the public pronouncements of needs. In this book you will find relevant information for health professionals, since we believe that the mental health of adolescents is essential for sustaining healthy and productive societies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Author index

Introduction

Education of health professionals about adolescent psychiatry / Sher, Leo / Merrick, Joav

Section I: Neurobiological aspects

1. Adolescents with psychiatric disorders: brain structural and functional changes / Miguel-Hidalgo, José Javier

2. Ecstasy and the serotonin syndrome / Dobry, Yuriy / Rice, Timothy / Sher, Leo

3. Testosterone levels and suicidal behavior / Sher, Leo

4. Buprenorphine in the treatment of non-suicidal self-injury / Norelli, Lisa J. / Smith, Howard S. / Sher, Leo / Blackwood, Tracey A.

Section II: Depression

5. Antidepressants for major depressive disorder in children and adolescents / Picouto, María Dolores / Braquehais, María Dolores

6. Suicide prevention in depressed adolescents / Rice, Timothy R. / Sher, Leo

Section III: Violence and abuse

7. Child sexual abuse and suicide in adolescents and adults / O'Brien, Betsy S. / Sher, Leo

8. Improving future physicians' responses to adolescent maltreatment / Knox, Michele / Pelletier, Heather / Vieth, Victor

9. Bullying, psychiatric pathology and suicidal behavior / Dobry, Yuriy / Braquehais, María Dolores / Sher, Leo

10. Dating violence and suicidal behavior in adolescents / Holmes, Kristin / Sher, Leo

Section IV: Post-traumatic stress disorder

11. Post-traumatic stress disorder, medical illness and suicidal behavior / Dobry, Yuriy / Sher, Leo

12. Prevention of suicidal behavior in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder / Ruby, Eugene / Sher, Leo

Section V: Substance abuse

13. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and dual disorders: educational needs for an underdiagnosed condition / Martínez-Raga, José / Szerman, Nestor / Knecht, Karl / Alvaro Lopéz, Raquel de

14. Cannabis and youth seeking treatment for primary mood or anxiety concerns

Section VI: Veterans' issues

15. Military sexual trauma as a determinant in the development of mental and physical illness in male and female veterans / O'Brien, Betsy S. / Sher, Leo

16. Educating medical professionals about suicide prevention among military veterans / Ganz, Debora / Sher, Leo

Section VII: Public health, cultural, and legal issues

17. Does the physician density affect suicide rates among adolescents and young adults? / Sher, Leo

18. Suicidal behavior in Indian adolescents / Samuel, Diana / Sher, Leo

19. American juvenile justice system: history in the making / Meng, Aaron / Segal, Roland / Boden, Eric

Section VIII: Acknowlegements

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783110316612

3110316617

OCLC:

862369468

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access