Promoting Safe and Effective Transitions to College for Youth with Mental Health Conditions: A Case-Based Guide to Best Practices - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319688936 ISBN 13: 9783319688930

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

This concise and practical book provides an overview of how to safely and effectively transition adolescents with mental health conditions into a college environment.

Therapeutic strategies to assess and promote readiness for transition to college are discussed in case-based chapters, which include case history, analysis of transition, clinical pearls, literature review, and helpful resources for clinicians, patients, and families. Filling a significant gap in the literature, Promoting Safe and Effective Transitions to College for Youth with Mental Health Conditions: A Case-Based Guide to Best Practices delivers essential information for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who work with children, adolescents, and their families before, during, and after the transition to college.

 

About this title

About the Author

Adele Martel  MD, PhD

Emeritus Medical Staff

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Jennifer Derenne MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Stanford, CA

Patricia K. Leebens MAT, MA, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale Child Study Center

Yale University

New Haven, CT

From the Back Cover

This concise and practical book provides an overview of how to safely and effectively transition adolescents with mental health conditions into a college environment.

Therapeutic strategies to assess and promote readiness for transition to college are discussed in case-based chapters, which include case history, analysis of transition, clinical pearls, literature review, and helpful resources for clinicians, patients, and families. Filling a significant gap in the literature, this resource delivers essential information for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who work with children, adolescents, and their families before, during, and after the transition to college.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319688936
• ISBN 13: 9783319688930
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Martel Adele, Derenne Jennifer, Leebens Patricia K.