Adolescent Psychiatry by Lois T. Flaherty (9780881633931)

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Volume 27 of "Adolescent Psychiatry" focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological and social impact of trauma of its victims, especially the young. In two Schonfeld Award papers, Michael Kalogerakis, former Commissioner of Mental Health in New York, offers a historical perspective on adolescent violence in America, whereas Lois Flaherty examines terrorism by looking at the appeal of ideologies that espouse violent revolution to young people. Christopher Thomas and his colleagues, drawing on their work on youth violence in Galveston, Texas, add a study that links gang members with serious violent crime. A series of papers by the Committee on Adolescence of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) deals not only with the nature, scope and impact of trauma, but also with its implications for mental health training and public policy. These papers are helpfully supplemented by studies that consider the neurobiological effects of trauma and the cultural and gender-based dimensions of trauma.
The clinical yield of these new perspectives is addressed in chapters on interventions with traumatized adolescents and on the special vulnerability of late adolescents to combat-related PTSD. Clinical contributions of related interest show how effective interventions can reduce the use of seclusion and restraint with state hospital adolescent populations; and provide an up-to-date understanding of the recognition of, and differentiation between, early-onset schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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