Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know

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Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, the third edition of Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders provides a significant update since the second edition in 2017. It addresses the current state of knowledge about the major mental health disorders that emerge during adolescence, including how the COVID-19 pandemic affected adolescent mental health.

Here, experts on adolescent anxiety, schizophrenia, substance use disorders, depression and bipolar disorders, eating disorders, and suicidal behavior thoroughly define each disorder, outline and assess available treatments, discuss prevention strategies, and suggest a research agenda based on what we know and don't yet know about these various conditions. The volume also incorporates chapters on gambling, Internet addiction, and positive youth development, which addresses how we can fully prepare young people to be happy and successful throughout their lives.

Concluding chapters discuss overarching issues regarding the behavioral and mental health of adolescents, including overcoming the stigma of mental illness and the research, policy, and practice context for the delivery of evidence-based treatments. Integrating the work of eminent scholars in both psychology and psychiatry, this work will be an essential volume for academics and practicing clinicians and will serve as a wake-up call to mental health professionals and policy makers alike about the state of our nation's response to the needs of adolescents with mental disorders.

Dwight L. Evans, MD, was Joseph and Madonna di Giacomo Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Neuroscience at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Emeritus Department Chair, Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania; and Emeritus Chief of Psychiatry at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Medical Center, and Pennsylvania Hospital.

Edna B. Foa, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Founder Director of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety.

Martin E. Franklin, PhD, is Associate Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Executive Director & OCD Service Line Leader at Rogers Behavioral Health, Philadelphia.

Raquel E. Gur, MD, PhD, is Professor, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director, Neurodevelopment & Psychosis Section in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kyle Kampman, MD, is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Christine Yu Moutier, MD, is Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Maria A. Oquendo, MD, PhD, is Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Psychiatrist in Chief at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Daniel Romer, PhD, is Director of Research at Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Moira A. Rynn, MD, is Professor and Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.

Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD, is Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; Director of the Positive Psychology Network; and Scientific Director of the Values-in-Action Classification of Strengths and Virtues Project, Mayerson Foundation.

Robyn Sysko, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

B. Timothy Walsh, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.