Helping Your Troubled Teen
Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens Cynthia Kaplan, Blaise Aguirre, Michael Rater,
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 1592332625
DDC: 362
Edition: Paperback; 2007-06-01
Summary:
The first "adolescent primer" on the marketDestructive trends among
today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their
parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors
in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse,
promiscuity, self mutilation (ie: cutting and burning), and eating
disorders. These will be covered in detail, along with other issues
like Internet addiction and suicide. These problems are not only
detrimental to teens' mental and physical health, but the legal
consequences for injurious behavior have also changed. Identification
and prevention are the most important aspects in stopping teenage
self-destructive behavior. This book offers a comprehensive look at
teens self destructive behavior and gives parents solutions for
dealing with it. Helping Your Troubled Teen instructs parents on how
to identify an at-risk adolescent and discuss warning signs of
injurious behavior, before the problem(s) become severe enough that a
child is in crisis and/or legal actions are taken against them.
Personal anecdotes and testimonials from both parents and their
teenagers who have been confronted with and have engaged in
self-destructive behavior are also included.McLean Hospital is the
largest psychiatric teaching facility of Harvard Medical School.
Founded in 1811 as the original psychiatric department of the MGH, it
moved to Belmont in 1895. McLean Hospital operates the largest
psychiatric neuroscience research program of any Harvard
University-affiliated facility and of any private psychiatric
hospital in the country. The Child and Adolescent Program at McLean
Hospital is one of the foremost clinical programs for helping young
people and their families cope with psychiatric illness and the
challenges it often brings. There are extensive ties with community
services, and each therapeutic program of children and adolescents in
inpatient, residential and outpatient services is tailored to the
specific needs of the child and family.
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