The Aggressive Adolescent: Clinical and Forensic Issues

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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... Read more

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 assessment, treatment, planning, and service delivery for aggressive youths. The book also explores legal and forensic issues that frequently accompany these cases to bring you insight into the whole picture surrounding problem adolescents.

Compelling and comprehensive, The Aggressive Adolescent shows you how some behaviors once attributed to mental illness are now seen as criminal, and how this view is pushing mentally ill youths into the criminal justice system. This vital guide will help you, as a mental health professional, to bolster your understanding of forensic mental health issues and effectively assist in criminal justice settings.

The Aggressive Adolescent will help you become a better, more connected youth care worker. You will learn:

to see institutionalized adolescents as whole people rather than focusing on a single characteristic such as violent behavior
to understand that these adolescents share common needs, desires, and aspirations with their therapists, and that you can use these commonalities to give you a connection that will facilitate their therapy
to see that traditional methods of intervention are often inappropriate or ineffective for aggressive adolescents
to address issues of risk assessment, malpractice, and liability, to help ensure fiscal and legal accountability

The Aggressive Adolescent presents strategies for dealing with youths who are resistant to entering into treatment so that you can help them deal with their problems. This essential book will assist you in developing and implementing effective systems of care for aggressive adolescents in order to give them the help and support they need.

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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 Model
General 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. The Homicidal Adolescent: Hearts Darkened Before Their Time
Research 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 the Violent Youth
Chapter 10. The Clinical Experience of the Unwilling Youth
The Four Types of Mental Health Problems
The Trust-Control Dichotomy
The 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 Testily
Worrying About Litigation
Malpractice Defined
Confidentiality
Duty to Warn
Post Tarasoff Legislative Responses
Useful Stuff and an Afterword: How to Find a Good Mechanic
Methods of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
Helping the Helper
Reference Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Davis, Daniel L

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