Moderators and Mediators of Treatments for Youth With Substance Abuse
Lynn Hernandez, Andrea Lavigne, Mark Wood, and Reinout W. Wiers
in Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes
Adolescence is a period when substance use problems often emerge. Accordingly, efficacious, empirically valdated interventions, which can arrest the development of substance abuse by ...
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The Relation Between Suicidal Ideation and Bullying Victimization in a National Sample of Transgender and Non-Transgender Adolescents
Michele L. Ybarra, Kimberly J. Mitchell, and Joseph Kosciw
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Previous research has noted elevated rates of suicidal ideation and peer victimization among transgender populations. Data are lacking about how peer victimization relates to suicidal ...
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Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Claudia Szobot
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
This chapter reviews psychosocial and pharmacological approaches to the treatment of substance abuse in adolescents. Effective early intervention is crucial because it can play a preventive ...
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Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Edna B. Foa, Martin Franklin, Richard J. McNally, Carmen McLean, and Daniel Pine
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
The chapter starts with an overview of the treatment of anxiety disorders in the fields of child and adolescent clinical psychology and psychiatry. Before reviewing what is known about the ...
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Stigma
Patrick E. Jamieson and Daniel Romer
in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know (2 ed.)
Stigma occurs when a person or group is negatively stereotyped and is treated as socially unacceptable. The stigma surrounding mental disorders poses significant barriers to identification, ...
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Time Out for Self-Reflection
Carol Landau
in Mood Prep 101: A Parent's Guide to Preventing Depression and Anxiety in College-Bound Teens
The joys and challenges of being a parent are especially evident during adolescence. Given the many suggestions and techniques that are provided in the book, it is important for parents to ...
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Kevin M. Antshel
in Case Studies in Clinical Psychological Science: Bridging the Gap from Science to Practice
Chapter 2 discusses a case of adult ADHD, and provides a synopsis of the patient’s childhood diagnosis, problems arising in early and late adolescence, and the run up to referral. It also ...
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Notes on Adolescence
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
This is a collection of notes, often highly abbreviated, in which Winnicott puts down various points related to adolescent development in both the healthy and psychologically ill child. He ...
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Interrelating Apart from Instinctual Drive and in Terms of Cross-Identifications
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this chapter, Winnicott uses clinical material to juxtaposes two contrasting statements, each illustrating intercommunication. The first case, a therapeutic consultation with a girl at ...
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Engaging Adolescents in Secondary Schools
Amy L. Reschly, Angie J. Pohl, Sandra L. Christenson, and James J. Appleton
in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents
The chapter “Engaging Adolescents in Secondary Schools,” from the volume School Mental Health Services for Adolescents, covers the topics of student engagement, connections between ...
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The Child and Sex
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this essay, Winnicott argues that the basis of sexual health is laid down in childhood, and then reworked in adolescence. The little child’s physical sex feelings include types of ...
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Suicide Ideation Among Sexual Minority Youth: The Effects of Bullying and Possible Protective Factors
V. Paul Poteat and Ian Rivers
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Sexual minority youth (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning; LGBTQ) continue to experience sizable physical and mental health disparities compared to their heterosexual ...
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Cultural Competence and Prevention Programming
Cynthia Hudley
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Bullying, victimization, and risk for suicide are serious and interrelated problems for adolescents today. The prevalence of these mental health challenges varies by demographic variables, ...
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Foreword to Disturbed Children: By Robert J. N. Tod (London: Longman, 1968)
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
Winnicott’s foreword in Robert Tod Disturbed Children recommending it to students and workers in residential work with disturbed children. ...
Review: The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence: By C. I. Sandström (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1968)
Donald W. Winnicott and C. I. Sandström
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
A Review by Winnicott of the textbook of academic psychology The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence, by Sandström. Winnicott’s assessment is that Sandström misses the joys and ...
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Moderators and Mediators of Treatments for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Matthew D. Lerner and Susan W. White
in Moderators and Mediators of Youth Treatment Outcomes
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) represent chronic and impairing symptoms in the domains of social, communication, and restricted/repetitive behavior. Core social deficits often maintain and ...
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Review: Adolescents and Morality: By E. M. Eppel and M. Eppel (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966)
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s praiseworthy review of Adolescents and Morality , an account of boys’ and girls’ thinking and feeling with well-classified responses. The influence of the threat of the atom ...
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Youth Will Not Sleep
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
In this essay for New Society, Winnicott discusses the normal restlessness and rebellion of adolescence and possible solutions from a psychological perspective. He recognises that the ...
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Letter to The Times: Psychiatric Care
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s letter to The Times on the roles of psychiatry and paediatrics in mental hospital provision for adolescents. ...
Deductions Drawn from a Psychotherapeutic Interview with an Adolescent
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
In this paper, Winnicott gives the case of Jane, who gave Winnicott an unexpected insight into the aetiology of her painful split in her relationship to her sister, and an explanation of ...
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