Adolescent Substance Abuse
Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors

Discusses more effective treatments for adolescents with abuse substance disorder. This title offers insightful viewpoints and dynamic suggestions on how to best provide simultaneous treatment and integrated services to these youths. It reviews different psychiatric disorders and high risk behaviors.

"Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors" is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, addictions specialists, counselors, educators, students, and drug court professionals who provide assessment and treatment for youths with substance use disorders.

About the Editors. Contributors. Acknowledgments. Kaminer, Bukstein, Introduction. Tarter, Vanyukov, Kirisci, Etiology of Substance Use Disorder: Developmental Perspective. Chung, Adolescent Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence: Prevalence, Course, and Outcomes. Winters, Stinchfielf, Bukstein, Assessing Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse. Fishman, Treatment Planning, Matching, and Placement for Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders. Slesnick, Kaminer, Kelly, Most Common Psychosocial Interventions for Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Upadhyaya, Deas, Pharmacological Interventions for Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Stein, Hesselbrock, Bukstein, Conduct Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Wilens, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Cornelius, Clark, Depressive Disorders and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Goldstein, Bukstein, Bipolar Disorder and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Clark, Thatcher, Cornelius, Anxiety Disorders and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Hawke, Albert, Ford, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Goldston, Daniel, Mathias, Dougherty, Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Behaviors in Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Milin, Comorbidity of Schizophrenia and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults. Bulik, Shroff, Eating Disorders and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Derevensky, Gambling Behaviors and Adolescent Substance Use Disorders. Libby, Riggs, Integrated Substance Use and Mental Health Services for Adolescents: Challenges and Opportunities. White, Popovits, Donohue, Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in the Treatment of Co-occurring Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders Among Adolescents. Index.