Table of Contents:
  • Machine derived contents note: Section 1 Transition Continuities: From Childhood into Adolescence.
  • Chapter 1. Psychosocial trends: delinquency/high risk young people
  • Chapter 2. Protective influences in adolescence
  • Chapter 3. Assessing adolescent mental health
  • Chapter 4. Issues of gender/culture and peer group/being victims
  • In Section 2 Psychiatric Disorders in High Risk and Young Offenders: Conduct Disorder
  • Chapter 5. ADHD; Learning disability
  • Chapter 6. Autism/Aspbergers
  • Chapter 7. Genetic/chromosomal disorders
  • Chapter 8. Psychosis-the Schizophrenia's
  • Chapter 9. Substance abuse
  • Chapter 10. Abnormal personality development
  • Chapter 11. Organic syndromes
  • Section 3 Principles of Treatment Physical Treatments.
  • Chapter 12. Cognitive behavioural treatment
  • Chapter 13. Psychotherapies
  • Chapter 14. Creative therapies
  • Section 4 Future Strategies: Predicted Problems.
  • Chapter 15. Mental health
  • Chapter 16. Service provision
  • Chapter 17. Impact of research on practice and treatment
  • Chapter 18. European prespective.