Adolescent Addiction

Informationen zum Autor Cecilia A. Essau is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Roehampton, UK where she is Director of Centre for Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (CARACAW). She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and her Habilitation? in Psychology (qualification for tenure-track professorships in Germany) from the University of Bremen (Germany). She is the first Iban woman to have received a PhD. Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health. Paul graduated from the University of Adelaide with degrees in Arts, Commerce and Economics and a PhD in psychology. He has published extensively in several areas, including the psychology of gambling, child protection and child welfare and applied cognition. He has over 300 publications in these areas including over 220 national and international refereed journal articles. His recent research interests in addiction have related to: the cross-over between gambling and gaming; the relationship between clinical co-morbidity and problem gambling; gambling-harm; the psychology of gaming machines and the behavioural indicators of problem gambling and harm. Klappentext Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology! Assessment! and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction! including prevalence and co-morbidity rates! risk factors to addiction! and prevention and treatment strategies. Unlike other books that may focus on one specific addiction! this book covers a wide range of addictions in adolescents! including alcohol! cannabis! tobacco! eating! gambling! internet and video games! and sex addiction. Intended to be of practical use to clinicians treating adolescent addiction! the book contains a wealth of information that will be of use to the researcher as well. A global perspective is offer from international contributors! representing the US! Canada! the UK! New Zealand! and Australia. Comprehensive with the state-of-the-art information on important and the most common adolescent addiction Easy to understand and organized chapters* Written by international experts Zusammenfassung Presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction! including prevalence and co-morbidity rates! risk factors to addiction! and prevention and treatment strategies. This book covers a range of addictions in adolescents! including alcohol! cannabis! tobacco! eating! gambling! internet and video games! and sex addiction. ...

Autorentext
Cecilia A. Essau is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Roehampton, UK where she is Director of Centre for Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (CARACAW). She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and her Habilitation” in Psychology (qualification for tenure-track professorships in Germany) from the University of Bremen (Germany). She is the first Iban woman to have received a PhD.

Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health. Paul graduated from the University of Adelaide with degrees in Arts, Commerce and Economics and a PhD in psychology. He has published extensively in several areas, including the psychology of gambling, child protection and child welfare and applied cognition. He has over 300 publications in these areas including over 220 national and international refereed journal articles. His recent research interests in addiction have related to: the cross-over between gambling and gaming; the relationship between clinical co-morbidity and problem gambling; gambling-harm; the psychology of gaming machines and the behavioural indicators of problem gambling and harm.

Klappentext
Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies. Unlike other books that may focus on one specific addiction, this book covers a wide range of addictions in adolescents, including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, eating, gambling, internet and video games, and sex addiction. Intended to be of practical use to clinicians treating adolescent addiction, the book contains a wealth of information that will be of use to the researcher as well. A global perspective is offer from international contributors, representing the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia.

• Comprehensive with the state-of-the-art information on important and the most common adolescent addiction Easy to understand and organized chapters Written by international experts

  Zusammenfassung
  Presents a comprehensive review of information on adolescent addiction, including prevalence and co-morbidity rates, risk factors to addiction, and prevention and treatment strategies. This book covers a range of addictions in adolescents, including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, eating, gambling, internet and video games, and sex addiction.

  Inhalt
  Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment

  Editor:Cecilia A. Essau
  Roehampton University, London

  Table of Contents

  PrefaceCecilia A. Essau

  Part 1.General Issues

  Chapter 1.Foundations of Addictive Problems: Developmental, Social and Neurobiological Factors
  Michele Preyde & Gerald Adams

  Chapter 2.Classification and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
  Ty A. Ridenour, Bethany C. Bray, Heather S. Scott, & Linda B. Cottler

  Part II.Specific Adolescent Addiction

  Chapter 3.Alcohol Use, Abuse and Dependence
  Cecilia A. Essau & Delyse Hutchinson

  Chapter 4.Cannabis Abuse and Dependence
  Wayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt, & George Patton

  Chapter 5.Tobacco Use and Dependence
  Judith S. Brook, Kerstin Pahl, & David W. Brook

  Chapter 6.Eating Addiction
  David H. Gleaves & Janet D. Carter

  Chapter 7.Gambling Practices among Youth: Etiology, Prevention and Treatment
  Rina Gupta & Jeffrey L. Derevensky

  Chapter 8.Internet and Video-game Addiction
  Mark Griffiths

  Chapter 9.Teen Sexual Addiction
  Steve Sussman

  Part III.Epilogue

  Chapter 10.Comorbidity of Addictive Problems: Assessment and Treatment Implications
  C…