Understanding Teenage Depression (Rev. Edition)

A comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and treatment of teenage depression

Understanding Teenage Depression (Rev. Edition)

By Maureen Empfield and Nicolas Bakalar
Based on the latest scientific findings, this book is 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. 256 pages. September 2001.
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