Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)
Language: English
Published by Academic Press, 2020
Series: Book 54 of 54 - ISSN
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- Title
- Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional)
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0128186267
- ISBN 13
- 9780128186268
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 54 of 54: ISSN
Adolescent Addiction, Second Edition, offers researchers and clinicians a single-volume resource on the nature, extent and treatment of addictive problems in adolescents. The book is divided into three main parts. Part one addresses the foundations of addictive problems, including developmental, social, and neurobiologicl factors. Part two addresses common addictions among adolescents. New chapters include e-cigarette, smartphone, social networking, and exercise addiction. Part three discusses challenges and recommendations for future research in adolescent addiction. All chapters in part two follow a similar format to introduction and clinical characteristics, screening and clinical assessment methods, epidemiology, cormorbidity, course and outcome, protective and risk factors, evidence-based clinical strategies for prevention and treatment, and a concise summary of key clinical points.
- Introduces the foundations to understanding addiction.
- Examines the epidemiology, comorbidity, course, and outcome of addictions.
- Provides screening and clinical assessment methods.
- Summarizes evidence-based clinical strategies for treatment.
- Covers both substance addiction and behavioral addictions.
- New chapters on e-cigarette, smartphone, internet, and exercise addiction.
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About the Author
Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health.
Paul graduated from the University of Adelaide with degrees in Arts, Commerce and Economics and a PhD in psychology. He has published extensively in several areas, including the psychology of gambling, child protection and child welfare and applied cognition. He has over 300 publications in these areas including over 220 national and international refereed journal articles. His recent research interests in addiction have related to: the cross-over between gambling and gaming; the relationship between clinical co-morbidity and problem gambling; gambling-harm; the psychology of gaming machines and the behavioural indicators of problem gambling and harm.
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