Handbook of Prevention and Treatment With Children and Adolescents: Intervention in the Real World Context - Hardcover

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ROBERT T. AMMERMAN, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at MCPu Hahnemann School of Medicine at the Allegheny University of the Health Sciences and Director of Mental Health Programs in Childhood Disabilities at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles for professional journals and coedited more than a dozen books, including Assessment of Family Violence and Treatment of Family Violence. Dr. Ammerman is a Diplomate in Behavioral Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. MICHEL HERSEN, PhD, is Professor and Dean of Pacific University's School of Professional Psychology. He has published hundreds of articles and is Coeditor-in-Chief of several prestigious psychology journals. Dr. Hersen coedited Assessment of Family Violence, Treatment of Family Violence, and Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis, Third Edition. He is the former president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.

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Clinicians striving to intervene and provide treatment for children living under adverse circumstances often find themselves fighting a losing battle with forces beyond their control. Clinical programs are often no match for the pervasive influence of drugs, disease, violence, and poverty that is the everyday reality for these children and their families. These and other forms of community malaise have a profound and ongoing impact on children's social and psychological development—an impact that can far outweigh the influence of conventional treatment strategies.

In this groundbreaking book, internationally recognized experts lay out state-of-the-art, empirically evaluated intervention strategies that deal directly with the sociodemographic forces that promote dysfunction and undermine treatment outcomes. Focusing on the issues and challenges faced by clinicians, it provides a comprehensive approach to treatment and prevention designed to mitigate the influence of negative environmental factors.

The book begins with a close examination of the destructive influence of poverty and other social ills on child development and moves on to discuss specific intervention formats and settings—from individual treatment to school and community-based programs. The second half of the book offers an extended exploration of particular problem areas and psychiatric disorders. A review of early intervention and preventive approaches for such behavioral issues as substance abuse, antisocial behavior, and sexually transmitted diseases is followed by recommendations for treatment of specific psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress.

For clinical, developmental, and community psychologists, school counselors, child psychiatrists, social workers, and educators, the Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents is a highly relevant professional reference and guide, which offers insightful and practical solutions to problems that often seem insurmountable in the clinical context. It is also an excellent graduate-level textbook that prepares students to cope with some of the most difficult challenges facing clinicians and children today.

"The negative social influences on children and their families are often out of the direct control of clinicians, and the quantity of time spent in actual treatment pales in comparison to that spent in settings which promoted psychosocial dysfunction in the first place. Because this disparity subverts the effectiveness of interventions, clinical programs must be designed and carried out that take into account those factors in the child's social ecology interfering with optimal outcomes."—From the Preface to the Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents