The Troubled Adolescent. - Softcover

White, Joseph L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080368190 ISBN 13: 9780080368191

Publisher: Pergamon Press, 1989

This book is about America's troubled and distressed teenagers. While adolescence is certainly a time of opportunity and growth, statistics indicate that it is also a time of severe distress and trouble for many teenagers. There are 2 million runaway and homeless youth in America, 10% to 20% of America's teenagers have serious problems with drugs and alcohol, 5% to 10% of adolescents are experiencing fasting, binging, and purge eating disturbances; one of the highest suicide rates in the 15-24-year age category. This book consists of ten chapter. The first two set the stage for the clinical chapters by introducing the role of conflict, frustration, coping, prevention, and treatment in troubled and distressed adolescent behavior. The next seven chapters cover the clinical and behavioral syndromes of running away, depression, suicide, eating disturbances, schizophrenia, drug abuse, and juvenile delinquency. Each syndrome is discussed from a perspective that include the historical notes, descriptive symptoms, statistics, etiology, causation and dynamics, consequences and outcomes, treatment, prevention, discussion questions, and suggestions for parents, educators, counselors, and youth workers. The closing chapter addresses the implications of trouble and distressed adolescent behavior for American society as a whole and recommends solutions which involve strengthening prevention and treatment services available to teenagers and their families.

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