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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458752903321

Autore

Davis Daniel Leifeld

Titolo

The aggressive adolescent : clinical and forensic issues / / Daniel L. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-7890-0910-2

1-315-82154-0

1-317-82619-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

616.85/82/00835

616.858200835

Soggetti

Violence in adolescence

Problem youth - Rehabilitation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2000 by the Haworth Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Clinical Prologue; The Parable of Nasrudin; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Problem of Violence in Our Society; The Problem of Juvenile Violence; The Misperception of the Decline in Juvenile Crime; Chapter 2. The Problem of Violence in Mental Health Treatment; The Violent Adult Psychiatric Patient; The Increasing Severity of Emotional Problems of Violent Youth in Corrections; Violence in Treatment Settings; A New Paradigm for Treatment of Violent Youth

Chapter 3. Developmental Sequences Utilizing a Cognitive-Behavioral Expressive ModelGeneral Concepts of Development; Chapter 4. Pathways of Violent Youth; The Developmental Pathway Model; Chapter 5. General Principles of Cognitive Development; Cognitive Characteristics of Violent Youth; Cognitive Processes of Aggressive Youth; Chapter 6. Affective Development; Affective Responses; Biological Factors; Chapter 7. Clinical Characteristics of Violent Youth; Psychological Testing and Psychiatric Diagnosis; Risk Factors; Clinical Aggression Risk Variables; Dangerousness Index



Chapter 8. Homicidal Adolescents: Hearts Darkened Before Their TimeResearch Review of Characteristics of Juvenile Murders; Typologies; The Psychotic Adolescent Murderer; The Criminal Adolescent Murderer; Interpersonal Conflict; Chapter 9. General Principles in the Treatment of Violent Youth; Cognitive Interventions; Affective Interventions; Behavioral Coping Skills; Environmental Interventions; Pitfalls and Clinical Provocation of Violence; The Discharge of Violent Youth; Chapter 10. The Clinical Experience of Unwilling Youth; The Four Types of Mental Health Problems

The Trust-Control DichotomyThe Problem of the Mental Health Cure-All; Techniques of Intervention with Unwilling Youth; The Therapist's Expectations; Chapter 11. Forensic Psychological Aspects of Care; Some Important Considerations; The Criminalization of Juvenile Justice: The Increasing Role of Forensic Practice in Juvenile Courts; Waiver/Bind Over of Juveniles to Adult Courts; Competency to Stand Trial; Victim Trauma and the Witness Disclosure Process in Child Abuse; Eyewitness Testimony and Victim Recall; Criminal Responsibility and Juvenile Courts; Malingering

Chapter 12. Malpractice: Regarding Each Other TestilyWorrying About Litigation; Malpractice Defined; Confidentiality; Duty to Warn; Post-Tarasoff Legislative Responses; Useful Information and an Afterword: How to Find a Good Mechanic; Methods of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution; Helping the Helper; Reference Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Maximize your effectiveness with troubled kids!The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues provides mental health professionals with a comprehensive text that covers both theoretical and practical applied knowledge of aggressive youth in a specific, problem-focused way. Through case histories and practical treatment interventions, this unique book will give you information to help you provide improved services to adolescents who have experienced neglect, physical abuse, and/or sexual abuse. The Aggressive Adolescent offers you a new model for practical and functional asse



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143227003321

Titolo

Autism [[electronic resource] ] : neural basis and treatment possibilities / / [editors, Gregory Bock and Jamie Goode]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2003

ISBN

1-280-27237-6

9786610272372

0-470-66751-6

0-470-86937-2

0-470-86938-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation symposium ; ; 251

Altri autori (Persone)

BockGregory

GoodeJamie

Disciplina

616.85882

618.92/8982

Soggetti

Autism

Autism in children

Neurophysiology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Symposium on autism: neural basis and treatment possibilities, held at the Novartis Foundation, London, 18-20 June 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

AUTISM: NEURAL BASIS AND TREATMENT POSSIBILITIES; Contents; Participants; Introduction: autism - the challenges ahead; Epidemiology and early identification of autism: research challenges and opportunities; Discussion; Implications of the broader phenotype for concepts of autism; Discussion; Strategies for autism candidate gene analysis; Discussion; How might genetic mechanisms operate in autism?; Discussion; X-linked genes and the neural basis of social cognition; Discussion; General discussion I; The neuropathology of the autism spectrum disorders: what have we learned?; Discussion

Microbiology and immunology of autism spectrum disordersDiscussion; What do imaging studies tell us about the neural basis of autism?; Discussion; The amygdala, autism and anxiety; Discussion; Cognition in autism: one deficit or many?; Discussion; Autism and specific language



impairment: categorical distinction or continuum?; Discussion; Why have drug treatments been so disappointing?; Discussion; Can early interventions alter the course of autism?; Discussion; Early intervention and brain plasticity in autism; Discussion; Final discussion; Summing-up; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws together contributions from some of the leading investigators in the field of autism to consider specific problem areas in current research. Each contributor brings expertise from a different field, providing a balanced view of the whole spectrum of study of this disorder. It covers four main areas: * Twin and family studies indicate that the heritability of the underlying liability to autism exceeds 90% and point to a multifactorial causation, involving a relatively small number of susceptibility genes. The book discusses this issue in detail, along with the problem of why s