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

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Year: 2001
Pages: 250
Binding Paperback
ISBN 805067612

Product Code: 756765293

Description

Maureen Empfield & Nicholas Bakalar. A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis & treatment of teenage depression (TD). If ignored or poorly treated, clinical TD can be a devastating illness for adolescents & their families. Drawing on her many years of experience as a psychiatrist working with teenagers, Empfield answers the questions that parents & teens have about depression, providing detailed information on: how depression is diagnosed; identifying the different types of depression; which teenagers are most at risk; assessing the risk of suicide; the drugs used to treat TD -- what they are & how they work; when a teenager needs to be hospitalized for depression; & the effect of depression on other teenage problems. Includes case studies as well as first-person accounts from teenagers.

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