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By
Morley Glicken, Department of Social Work, Arizona State University West, Phoenix, USA
Included in series
Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional,
Description
At a time when increasing numbers of children are being treated for emotional problems, naming and treating those problems remains more
of an art than a science often leaving children and their parents to navigate a confusing path.
One reason for this uncertainty
is that we have few objective ways of assessing a child's emotional difficulties other than judgments based on interviews and checklists
of symptoms. Unlike most adults, however, young children are often unable or unwilling to talk about their symptoms, leaving mental health
professionals to rely on observation and information from parents and teachers that may be incorrect or biased.
Furthermore, children
develop so quickly that what looks like attention deficit disorder in the fall may look like anxiety or nothing at all in the summer.
Although the mental health field has made great strides in helping children manage mental illness, particularly moderate conditions,
the system of diagnosis is still '200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine,' according Dr. E. Jane Costello, a professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University. Dr. Costello and other experts believe that the search for a diagnosis is often
a process of trial and error that may end with serious errors in diagnosis and treatment.
According to government surveys at least
six million American children have difficulties that are diagnosed as serious mental disorders, a number that has tripled since the early
1990s even though one of the largest continuing surveys of mental illness in children, tracking 4,500 children ages 9 to 13, found no
cases of full-blown bi-polar disorder and only a few children with the mild flights of excessive energy that could be considered nascent
bipolar disorder. Moreover, the symptoms diagnosed as serious emotional problems in children often bear little resemblance to those in
adults. Instead, children?s moods often flip on and off throughout the day, and their upswings often look more like extreme agitation
than bi-polar disorder.
The confusion over accurate diagnosis and treatment leaves parents with very difficult children virtually
alone and confused by the conflicting signals given by doctors and other mental health professionals. If parents are lucky, they may
find a specialist who listens carefully and has the sensitivity to understand their child and their family. In dozens of interviews conducted
by the author, however, parents of troubled children said that they had searched for months and sometimes years to find the right therapist.
The
advantage of EBP, according to Hines, is that it allows the practitioner to develop quality practice guidelines that can be applied to
the client, identify appropriate literature that can be shared with the client, communicate with other professionals from a knowledge-guided
frame of reference and, continue a process of self-learning that results in the best possible treatment for clients.
focusing
on the most current research and best evidence regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and adolescents with a range
of emotional problems including, but not limited to: ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Aspirgers
Syndrome; substance abuse; social isolation; school related problems including underachievement; sexual acting out; Oppositional Defiant
and Conduct Disorders; Childhood Schizophrenia; Gender Issues; Prolonged Grief; gang involvement; and a number of other problems experienced
by children and adolescents.
Because concrete research evidence is often not used as the basis for practice with children and
adolescents, and the next edition in the DSM series, which promises more information about children isn't due until 2011, this book provides
a timely guide for practitioners, students, mental health professionals, and parents to a research-oriented approach for understanding
and helping children experiencing emotional difficulties and their families.
particularly in populations where there has been
a dramatic increase in troubled youth such as autism and substance abuse.
The problems discussed in the book range from more
common problems such as underachievement and parents who fail to supervise or provide effective role models to much more serious problems
including Bi-Polar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and children traumatized by sexual abuse, violence, and neglect.
Audience
Primary:
Practicing clinicians, social workers and school counselors working with children and adolescents.
Secondary:
Supplemental reading
for graduate students in clinical, counseling, social work, and human services programs.
Contents
Part I: The Current State of Practice with Children and Adolescents
1: The Current State of Practice with Children and Adolescents
Part
II: The Core Beliefs of Evidence-Based Practice
2: An Explanation of Evidence-Based Practice
3: A Simple Guide to Reading and Understanding
Practice Research
4: The Importance of Critical Thinking in Evidence-Based Practice with Children and Adolescents
5: Locating Relevant
Clinical Research on Children and Adolescents
Part III: How EBP Views Diagnosis, Assessment and Worker-Client Relationships
6: Using
Evidence-Based Practice in Diagnosis
7: A Psycho-Social Assessments Using Evidence Based Practice
8: Evidence-Based Practice and the
Client-Worker Relationship
Part IV: Evidence Based Practice With Special Problems of Children and Adolescents
9: Evidence-Based Practice
with School-Related Problems
10: Evidence-Based Practice with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
11: Evidence-Based Practice
and Children and Adolescents Experiencing Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Aspirgers Syndrome
12: Evidence-Based Practice and Children
Experiencing Physical and Sexual Abuse and Neglect
13: Evidence-Based Practice with Depression and Suicidal Inclinations
14: Evidence-Based
Practice with Anxiety Disorders and OCD
15: Evidence-Based Practice and Eating Disorders
16: Evidence-Based Practice with Serious and
Terminal Illness, Disabilities, and Prolonged Bereavement
17: Evidence-Based Practice and Gender Issues
18: Evidence-Based Practice with
Developmental Problems
19: Evidence-Based Practice with Children Suffering from Autism
20: Evidence-Based Practice with Oppositional
Defiant Disorders and Conduct Disorders
21: Evidence-Based Practice with Children and Adolescents who Abuse Substances
22: Evidence-Based
Practice and Sexual Acting Out
23: Evidence-Based Practice and Children and Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder
24: Evidence-Based
Practice with Bi-Polar Disorder and other Serious Problems Suggesting Mental Illness
Part V: Evidence-Based Practice and Alternative
Approaches to Helping
25: Evidence-Based Practice and the Significance of Religion and Spirituality
26: Evidence-Based Practice and the
Effectiveness of Indigenous Helpers and Self-Help Groups
27: The Importance of Resilience and Self-Righting in work with Children and
Adolescents
Part VI: Evidence Based Practice and Future Trends, Social Involvement, and Final Words
28: The Future of Clinical Work
with Children and Adolescents
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 664 pages, publication date: FEB-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374523-1
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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