Treating Depressed and Suicidal Adolescents: A Clinician's Guide

Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized treatment plans that combine cognitive and behavioral techniques, emotion regulation interventions, family involvement, and antidepressant medication. Illustrated with many clinical examples, each chapter includes a concise overview and key points. Reproducible treatment planning forms and client handouts can be photocopied from the book or downloaded and printed by purchasers. This book will be invaluable to mental health professionals who work with adolescents, including clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses.

“"This clearly written, well-referenced book is designed for those treating this difficult population of at-risk adolescents....The authors include rich case study contributions from their own evidence-based clinical practices, providing an impressively strong basis for the work....This book can be a valuable resource for today's psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, advanced practice psychiatric nurses, counselors, and others who care for these depressed, at-risk adolescents. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals."-- Choice Reviews”

"Brent and his colleagues have produced a superbly written book that provides state-of-the-art information about evidence-based assessment and treatment of adolescent depression and suicidality. The book is infused with clinical wisdom that will fully prepare the reader for treating these challenging conditions. This exceptional book is a 'must read.'" - Matthew K. Nock, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA "A unique contribution to the clinical literature. Brent is one of the most prominent researchers in child psychiatry. He and his coauthors present an extremely readable and practical work that is rooted in research but geared toward clinicians in any setting, from the emergency department to private practice. The case examples, handouts, and descriptions of key therapy techniques are invaluable; chapters on assessing and managing suicidality provide concise yet thorough guidelines. The section on developing a safety plan is excellent, and is sufficiently detailed that clinicians will be easily able to implement the procedures." - Anthony Spirito, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, USA

David A. Brent, MD, Kimberly D. Poling, LCSW, and Tina R. Goldstein, PhD, all at the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA and Services for Teens at Risk (STAR-Center), Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, USA

Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized treatment plans that combine cognitive and behavioral techniques, emotion regulation interventions, family involvement, and antidepressant medication. Illustrated with many clinical examples, each chapter includes a concise overview and key points. Reproducible treatment planning forms and client handouts can be photocopied from the book or downloaded and printed by purchasers. This book will be invaluable to mental health professionals who work with adolescents, including clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses.

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