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Title Adolescent dysfunctional behavior : causes, interventions, and prevention / editors Gary M. Blau, Thomas P. Gullotta
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1996]
©1996

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Description x, 304 pages ; 23 cm
Series Issues in children's and families' lives ; v. 3
Issues in children's and families' lives ; v. 3
Contents Preface / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 1. Dysfunctional Behavior: A Cautionary Statement / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 2. Selected Theoretical Frameworks of Individual and Group Behavior for Intervention and Prevention / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 3. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder / H. Ann Brochin and Joseph A. Horvath -- 4. Oppositional Defiant Disorder / Burton I. Blau -- 5. Anxiety Disorders / Harry L. Mills -- 6. Adolescent Drug Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives on Etiology and Treatment / Ruth Baugher Palmer and Howard A. Liddle -- 7. Problem Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence / Lisa Terre and Barry R. Burkhart -- 8. Eating Disorders / Robert J. Weinstein -- 9. Adolescent Suicide and Depression / Gary M. Blau -- 10. The Neurobiology of Schizophrenia / Deepak Cyril D'Souza and John Harrison Krystal -- 11. New Directions for Service Delivery: Home-Based Services / William Eyberse, James Maffuid and Gary M. Blau
12. School-Based Health and Social Service Centers / Thomas P. Gullotta, Lynn Noyes and Gary M. Blau -- 13. Comments on Adolescent Behavior Problems: Developing Coordinated Systems of Care / Gary M. Blau and David A. Brumer
Summary Adolescent Dysfunctional Behavior succeeds in introducing its audience to the many facets and treatments of adolescent problems. Especially useful for researchers and students in developmental psychology, psychology, family studies, sociology, education research, social work, and public health. This accessible book also provides invaluable information for parents, foster parents, group home facilitators, or anyone who works regularly with adolescents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Adolescent psychopathology.
Problem youth.
Teenagers -- Mental health services.
Author Blau, Gary M.
Gullotta, Thomas P., 1948-
LC no. 95035479
ISBN 0803953720 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803953739 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Preface / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 1. Dysfunctional Behavior: A Cautionary Statement / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 2. Selected Theoretical Frameworks of Individual and Group Behavior for Intervention and Prevention / Thomas P. Gullotta -- 3. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder / H. Ann Brochin and Joseph A. Horvath -- 4. Oppositional Defiant Disorder / Burton I. Blau -- 5. Anxiety Disorders / Harry L. Mills -- 6. Adolescent Drug Abuse: Contemporary Perspectives on Etiology and Treatment / Ruth Baugher Palmer and Howard A. Liddle -- 7. Problem Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence / Lisa Terre and Barry R. Burkhart -- 8. Eating Disorders / Robert J. Weinstein -- 9. Adolescent Suicide and Depression / Gary M. Blau -- 10. The Neurobiology of Schizophrenia / Deepak Cyril D'Souza and John Harrison Krystal -- 11. New Directions for Service Delivery: Home-Based Services / William Eyberse, James Maffuid and Gary M. Blau