Description: A practical guide to mental health and substance abuse challenges faced by children and adolescents, the book provides definitions, early signs for detection, symptoms, diagnoses, treatment options for childhood trauma, anxiety disorders, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, the spectrum of schizophrenia, first episode psychosis, and substance abuse.
Review Quotes: "This book is a great resource is for social work students and beginning professionals with little knowledge of the differences between adult mental illness and child/adolescent mental illness." -- Lorri McMeel, Research on Social Work Practice