Edited by
Cecilia Essau, School of Human and Life Sciences, Roehampton University, Whitelands College, London, UK
Description
Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction,
including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies. Unlike other books that
may focus on one specific addiction, this book covers a wide range of addictions in adolescents, including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco,
eating, gambling, internet and video games, and sex addiction. Organized into three sections, the book begins with the classification
and assessment of adolescent addiction. Section two has one chapter each on the aforementioned addictions, discussing for each the definition,
epidemiology, risk factors, co-morbidity, course and outcome, and prevention and intervention. Section three discusses the assessment
and treatment of co-morbid conditions in greater detail as well as the social and political implications of adolescent addictions.
Intended
to be of practical use to clinicians treating adolescent addiction, the book contains a wealth of information that will be of use to
the researcher as well. Contributors to the book represent the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.
About the Editor:
Cecilia
A. Essau is professor of developmental psychopathology at Roehampton University in London, UK. Specializing in child and adolescent psychopathology,
she has been an author or editor of 12 previous books in child psychopathology and is author of over 100 research articles and book chapters
in this area.
Included in series
Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional
Audience:
Advanced and post-graduate researchers in clinical child and adolescent psychology, developmental psychopathology, abnormal child psychology, and clinical psychology
