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Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents
Diane T. Marsh, Mary A. Fristad
A comprehensive guidebook to diagnosing and treating youth with SED
Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents presents current
theory, research, practice, and policy concerning serious emotional disturbance (SED) and
highlights opportunities for practitioners to serve this large and vulnerable population.
As many as one in five children has a diagnosable mental disorder, yet many go undiagnosed
and receive little or no treatment for their problems, which can worsen with age. This
multidisciplinary, multisystemic handbook fills the need for a current and comprehensive
resource that targets the most severe and persistent mental disorders of childhood and
adolescence.
Featuring contributors that include the leading SED experts, this practical resource
encompasses a wide range of practice, research, and training issues. It outlines the
process of integrating systems-of-care values into university-based training, underscores
the need for competence in children’s mental health services, and includes the voices
of adolescents and college students with early-onset mental disorders. Specific SED
disorders and their evidence-based treatments are explored, including autism, substance
abuse, anxiety disorders, ADHD, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, major depressive
disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suicidal behavior.
The focus then shifts to systems of care, where home-based treatment is addressed, as well
as collaborative models for working with families that have a child diagnosed with SED.
Also included are discussions of school-based intensive mental health treatment and the
role of the primary health care system in SED, as well as empirically supported family-
and community-based interventions contributed by leading researchers and clinicians in the
field.
The future holds great hope as well as tremendous challenges for children’s mental
health. This important work is a must for all professionals who work with children and
adolescents and wish to advance the progress of care. June 2002
ORDER CODE: JW-0-471-39814-4-B
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