Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis,

Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management
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Based on the latest scientific findings, a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of teenage depression.
Each year thousands of American teenagers are diagnosed with clinical depression. If ignored, poorly treated, or left untreated, it can be a devastating illness for adolescents and their families. Drawing on her many years of experience as a pychiatrist working with teenagers, Dr. Maureen Empfield answers the questions parents and teens have about depression, providing detailed information on:
*Identifying the different types of depression
*How depression is diagnosed
*Which teenagers are most at risk
*Suicide
*The effect of depression on other teenage problems
*How depression is treated and by whom
*The drugs used to treat teenage depression - what they are and how they work
*When a teenager needs to be hospitalized for depression
*and more
Understanding Teenage Depression provides the latest scientific findings on this serious condition, and the most up to date information on its treatment. The book includes numerous vignettes drawn from Dr. Empfield's clinical practice as well as first person accounts from teenagers who have themselves suffered from depression. Understanding Teenage Depression is a book that anyone who's been touched by this disease - whether parents, teachers, family members or teens themselves - will find invaluable.
Country USA
Brand Holt McDougal
Manufacturer Holt Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
Color White
ReleaseDate 2001-09-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780805067613

Country	USA
Brand	Holt McDougal
Manufacturer	Holt Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2001-09-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780805067613

Understanding Teenage Depression: A Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management

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