Adolescent psychiatry : a contemporary perspective for health professionals /

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Uniform title:Adolescent psychiatry (Walter de Gruyter & Co.)
Imprint:Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Language:English
Series:Health, medicine, and human development
Health, medicine, and human development.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12662006
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Other authors / contributors:Sher, Leo, editor.
Merrick, Joav, 1950- editor.
ISBN:9783110316612
3110316617
1306092051
9781306092050
9783110316568
3110316560
Digital file characteristics:text file
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
In English.
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Summary:Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. The prevalence of mood, anxiety, substance use and other psychiatric disorders among adolescents is high. However, medical professionals are not sufficiently trained about adolescent psychiatric disorders. Primary care providers correctly identify less than a fourth of youth with a depressive or anxiety disorder and many clinicians underestimate the importance of the problem of adolescent psychiatric illnesses and suicidal behavior. Multiple clinical, neurobiological, cultural.
Other form:Print version: Adolescent psychiatry (Walter de Gruyter & Co.). Adolescent psychiatry 9783110316568
Standard no.:10.1515/9783110316612