Evidence-based practice with socially and emotionally troubled children and adolescents
By: Morley D. Glicken
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Practical resources for the mental health professional
Publisher: Academic Press/Elsevier; Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780080923062; 9780123745231
Subjects: Emotional problems of teenagers; Child psychiatry; Adolescent; Emotional problems of children; Child; Evidence-based psychiatry; Mental Disorders
Other titles: Evidence-based practice with emotionally troubled children and adolescents
Description: The author, a professional social worker and professor at the Arizona State University West Department of Social Work, expresses his concern for the increasing number of children being diagnosed and treated for emotional problems. "The unsettling thought of misdiagnosing children who need help but are not being served because of racial and gender issues, and treatment of large number of children who are, in reality, responding in normal ways to maturational and social changes has begun to capture a great deal of attention in the popular and professional literature." -- p. [3]. He proposes an evidence-based practice approach regarding assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with social and emotional problems "including, but not limited to: ADHD; Bi-Polar Disorder; anxiety and depression; eating disorders; Autism; Asperger's Syndrome; lonelines and social isolation; school related problems; gender issues and prolonged grief. The psychosocial interventions discussed in the book provide practitioners and educators with a range of effective treatments that serve as an alternative to the use of unproven medications with unknown but potentially harmful side effects." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.