Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope

Millions of adolescent girls are in a crisis of rage and despair.

Using a developmental-relational model of intervention, Straus explores the ways in which clinicians and caregivers can successfully reach out to the children behind these often frightening behaviors, and how to help them cope. A highly practical resource, Adolescent Girls in Crisis explores concrete strategies and methods for helping girls in crisis by focusing on identification, diagnosis, and treatment of many of the troubled and troubling behaviors―including oppositional defiant disorder, trauma, eating disorders, and attachment problems, among others―what to look for before there's a crisis (and in one), what to worry about, and, most of all, what to do.