Understanding Teenage Depression A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management (Paperback)
| Author: Maureen/ Bakalar Empfield | Joint Author: Nick Bakalar Nick Bakalar |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
ISBN-10: 0805067612
ISBN-13: 9780805067613
Sku: 30793110
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T
Pages:
250
Age Range:
NA
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| Drawing on her years of experience as a psychiatrist working with teenagers, Dr. Empfield answers questions parents and teens have about depression, providing information on identifying the different types of depression, how depression is diagnosed, and which teenagers are most at risk. |
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A parent's guide to the problem of teenage depression explains the various types of depression affecting young people, the symptoms of depression, how depression is diagnosed, the effects of depression on other problems of adolescence, various treatment options, and other important topics. |
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This guide to teenage depression and the treatment of teenage depression covers such topics as identifying the different types of depression, how depression is diagnosed, the drugs used to treat depression, and whether or not hospitalization should be considered. Author Maureen Empfield has worked as the Director of Psychiatry at Northern Westchester Hospital Center and as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
This guide to teenage depression and the treatment of teenage depression covers such topics as identifying the different types of depression, how depression is diagnosed, the drugs used to treat depression, and whether or not hospitalization should be considered. Author Maureen Empfield has worked as the Director of Psychiatry at Northern Westchester Hospital Center and as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.....................................................xi Preface...........................................................xiii 1. Teenage Depression: More Common Today Than Ever...................1 2. Diagnosis: Figuring Out If Depression Is the Problem.............21 3. Which Teenagers Are Most at Risk?................................53 4. Suicide..........................................................67 5. Depression and Other Teenage Problems............................97 6. The Psychological Treatment of Depression.......................117 7. What Kind of Care?: The Health Professionals Who Treat Depression, What They Do, and Where They Work......................133 8. Medicine for Depression: Pharmacological Treatments and How They Work......................................................151 9. Psychiatric Hospitals: What They're For and What Happens Inside.............................................................195 10. Legal and Ethical Concerns.....................................213 Further Reading....................................................221 Resources..........................................................229 Index..............................................................239
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