Terje Ogden - Adolescent Mental Health: Prevention and Intervention

Adolescent Mental Health

Adolescence is a period characterized by both increased susceptibility to risks and new-found strength to withstand them. Whilst most young people are well equipped to manage the changes associated with growing up, other maladjusted and marginalized adolescents already have, or are at risk of developing, mental health problems.

Adolescent Mental Health: Prevention and Intervention is a concise and accessible overview of our current knowledge on effective treatment and prevention programs for young people with mental health problems. Whilst addressing some of the most common mental health issues among young people, such as behavioral problems and drug-related difficulties, it also offers a fuller understanding of the evidence-based treatment and prevention programs that are built upon what we know about how these behavioral and emotional problems develop and are sustained.

The volume illustrates contemporary and empirically supported interventions and prevention efforts through a series of case studies. It has been fully updated in line with the latest NICE and DSM-V guidelines, and now includes an added chapter on implementation, and what factors facilitate implementation processes of intervention efforts.

Adolescent Mental Health: Prevention and Intervention will be essential reading for students and practitioners in the fields of child welfare and mental health services, and any professional working with adolescents at risk of developing mental health problems.

Terje Ogden, Ph.D., is Research Director at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development, Unirand and a Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Kristine Amlund Hagen, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development. Her research has focused on social competence, antisocial behavior, implementation of intervention efforts, and risk and protective factors.

Adolescence and Society

Series Editor: John C. Coleman

Department of Education, University of Oxford

In the 20 years since it began, this series has published some of the key texts in the field of adolescent studies. The series has covered a very wide range of subjects, almost all of them being of central concern to students, researchers and practitioners. A mark of its success is that a number of books have gone to second and third editions, illustrating its popularity and reputation.

The primary aim of the series is to make accessible to the widest possible readership important and topical evidence relating to adolescent development. Much of this material is published in relatively inaccessible professional journals, and the objective of the books has been to summarize, review, and place in context current work in the field, so as to interest and engage both an undergraduate and a professional audience.

The intention of the authors is to raise the profile of adolescent studies among professionals and in institutions of higher education. By publishing relatively short, readable books on topics of current interest to do with youth and society, the series makes people more aware of the relevance of the subject of adolescence to a wide range of social concerns.

The books do not put forward any one theoretical viewpoint. The authors outline the most prominent theories in the field and include a balanced and critical assessment of each of these. Whilst some of the books may have a clinical or applied slant, the majority concentrate on normal development.

The readership rests primarily in two major areas: the undergraduate market, particularly in the fields of psychology, sociology and education; and the professional training market, with particular emphasis on social work, clinical and educational psychology, counselling, youth work, nursing and teacher training.

Also in this series:

Youth, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Anne Mitchell, Susan Moore and Doreen Rosenthal

Adolescent Health

Patrick Heaven

Teenagers and Technology

Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon

Trafficked Young People

Jenny Pierce, Patricia Hynes and Silvie Bovarnick

Young People and the Care Experience

Julie Shaw and Nick Frost

Sexuality in Adolescence, 3rd ESdition

Susan M. Moore, and Doreen A. Rosenthal

Adolescence and Body Image

Lina A Ricciardelli and Zali Yager

Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood

Alison Hadley

Adolescent Mental Health

Prevention and Intervention

Second Edition

Terje Ogden and Kristine Amlund Hagen

Contents

Adolescence is a period characterized by both increased susceptibility to risks and new-found strength to withstand them. How well an adolescent adjusts to the changes, challenges, and opportunities of this period oftentimes depends on the willingness and ability of the context to accommodate the young persons emerging needs and capacities.

Fortunately, most adolescents go through this period of life in a healthy way; they can master their schoolwork, make and keep friends, get along with their parents and teachers, stay out of trouble, and lead fulfilling lives. For some individuals however, and for a variety of reasons, the adolescence period also renders a significant number of maladjusted, unhappy, and marginalized adolescents. This volume brings together our current knowledge about how common mental health problems in adolescence develop, what the risk factors associated with these are, and presents well-established methods and programs designed to alleviate or prevent such problems.