Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

674 Pages·2005·3.01 MB·English

by  Gerald R. Adams (auth.)

Handbook of Adolescent
Behavioral Problems
Handbook of Adolescent
Behavioral Problems
Evidence-Based Approaches to
Prevention and Treatment
Edited by
Thomas P. Gullotta
Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut,
New London, CT
and
Eastern Connecticut State University, Windham, CT
Gerald R. Adams
University of Guelph
Ontario, Canada
Research Assistant
Jessica M. Ramos
Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut,
New London, CT
ASponsored Publication of the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut
Thomas P. Gullotta
Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut
New London, CT 06320
Gerald R. Adams
Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
University of Guleph
Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of adolescent behavioral problems :evidence-based approaches to
prevention and treatment / edited by Thomas P. Gullotta, Gerald R. Adams ;
research assistant, Jessica M. Ramos.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-387-23845-X (acid-free paper) — ISBN0-387-23846-8 (eBook)
1. Adolescent psychopathology. 2. Adolescent psychiatry. 3. Behavior
disorders in adolescence. I. Gullotta, Thomas, 1948- II. Adams, Gerald R.,
1946- III. Ramos, Jessica M.
RJ503.H266 2005
616.89’00835—dc22 2004062642
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Contributors
Gerald R. Adams is Professor of Family Relations and Human Development at the
University of Guelph. He has been awarded recognition as a Distinguished Profes-
sor of Teaching at the University of Guelph, received honors from the American Psy-
chological Association and American Psychological Society, served as the editor of
the Journal of Adolescent Research, and was one of three editors for a 10 volume series
of Advances in Adolescent Development. He has recently coedited the Blackwell
Handbook of Adolescence.
Jill Antonishak is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the Uni-
versity of Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree from Goucher College
and her master’s degree from UVA. Her research focuses on adolescent risk-taking
and problem behavior, with an emphasis on peer relations.
Andre P. Bessettereceived his B.A. in Psychology from Connecticut College in New
London, CT. He and his family moved out to California where he completed his M.S.
and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo
Alto. He completed his predoctoral internship in Pediatric Psychology at Children’s
Hospital Oakland and his postdoctoral residency at The Learning Clinic in Brooklyn,
CT, where he is currently a clinician. Dr. Bessette resides in northeast city with his
wife, Donna, and their two daughters, Nathalie and Yvonne.
Brian Bishop is an Associate Professor at Curtin University or Technology. He is a
community psychologist, and his areas of research interest include community theory
and development, indigenous issues and social justice. Recent research he has been
involved in includes developing strategies for prevention of depression and anxiety
in Aboriginal children, and in community participation in large-scale regional natu-
ral resource management.
Mark B. Borg, Jr.is a community/clinical psychologist and interpersonal psychoan-
alyst who is affiliated with the William Alanson White Institute. He is co-founder
and principal partner of the Community Consulting Group, which is a community
revitalization organization. He lives and practices in New York City.
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is the Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor at Teachers Col-
lege and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She is also
co-Director of the National Center for Children and Families and the Institute for
Child and Family Policy at Columbia University. Adevelopmental psychologist, she
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does policy-relevant research on prevention and intervention programs, long-term
longitudinal studies of the life course, work on neighborhood and family SES dis-
parities in outcomes, and investigation of effects of biological and environmental
interactions on behavior and achievement in children, youth, and families. She has
written over a dozen books and 400 articles and chapters on these topics.
Joseph L. Callesearned a B.S. in zoology from U.C. Davis. His M.D. is from Michi-
gan State University (M.S.U.), where he also completed his residency in general psy-
chiatry. His child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship was at U.S.C. He is the Direc-
tor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Psychiatry Residency program at
Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, and is a Clinical
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at M.S.U.
Christina M. Campholds a dual appointment as a faculty member with the Program
on Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), Department of Psychiatry at Yale Uni-
versity, and as an Associate Director of Research Projects at Emory University,
Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Camp’s research interests lie in the areas of bio-
behavioral processes, ethno-cultural issues in health and mental health and the inter-
personal dynamics of male-female relationships.
Deborah M. Capaldi is a Senior Scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center in
Eugene, Oregon. She is currently conducting three linked studies to examine the
causes and consequences of antisocial and co-occurring behaviors across the life
span within a dynamic developmental-contextual framework.
Sucheta D. Connollyis Director of the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic
and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC). She graduated from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, com-
pleted her residency in general psychiatry at UIC and her fellowship in child and
adolescent psychiatry at University of Chicago. She provides consultation and pro-
fessional development programming to schools and mental health agencies in the
community.
Feyza Corapci is a clinical psychology graduate student in the Department of
Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. She is completing her predoctoral clin-
ical internship in the Child Track at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),
Department of Psychiatry. Her research interests include the operation of environ-
mental risk and protective factors on low-income preschoolers’ social competence
and behavioral adjustment and the role of home context and child temperament on
parent-child transactions.
Melinda Corwin is an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language,
and Hearing Sciences at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She is a clin-
ical instructor and provides speech-language therapy to young children and adoles-
cents with diagnoses including ADHD and language learning disability. Ms. Corwin
is working toward her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at Texas
Tech University. Her research involves family stress related to attention deficit hyper-
activity disorder in adolescents.
Natalie Crespo is a graduate student in the Community and Culture Psychology
program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She graduated with a B.A. from the
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Ohio State University. Her employment and research experiences have revolved
around issues pertaining to at-risk youth and families, including working with
homeless teenagers, disadvantaged families in need of child care, and literacy aid for
children.
Michael R. Dalla is Managing Director of UrbanSensor a market research and pro-
motions company partnering with Fortune 1000 companies to provide Real Time
Consumer Insights. He is co-founder and partner of the Community Consulting
Group. He resides in San Francisco and conducts research abroad.
Ralph J. DiClementeis the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health in
the Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the
Emory University School of Medicine. His research focuses on adolescent health
risk and protective behaviors and the socio-ecological influences that affect these
behaviors.
Peter W. Dowrick is Professor of Disability Studies and Psychology at University of
Hawaii. He has wide experience working with people marginalized by culture, dis-
ability, mental health, and other considerations. His consultation on prevention and
intervention extends to New Zealand, Great Britain, Alaska, Kansas, Baltimore, Cana-
da, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Hawaii, Micronesia, and American
Samoa, with consultation-from-a-distance to another 26 states and 16 countries. His
principal contribution has been in the concepts of feedforward and creating futures,
applied in situations of personal safety, serious mental illness, social behavior, sports
and recreation, daily living, literacy, academic skills, health, housing, management,
and jobs, among others.
Raymond W. DuCharme is the founder and director of The Learning Clinic, Inc.
(TLC), a private nonprofit education and treatment program for children and
adolescents. TLC has provided day education and residential services since 1980.
Dr. DuCharme has been a researcher and teacher, and Adjunct Professor at The
University of Connecticut and Assistant Professor at Brown University, a national
consultant and author of numerous papers and articles on the subjects of treating
and educating students with Autistic spectrum disorders and associated co-morbid
conditions.
J. Mark Eddy is an Associate Director and a Research Scientist at the Oregon Social
Learning Center. He has conducted several long-term, follow-up studies of preven-
tive and clinical interventions conducted within the juvenile justice and the school
systems. For the past four years, he has been working with the Oregon Department
of Corrections on the development of a research-based parenting program for incar-
cerated mothers and fathers, and currently is studying the outcomes of the program.
Cassandra Finkreceived her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and then went on to complete her master’s degree in Public
Health at Columbia University. She is currently working with the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network (CTN). Her research in drug abuse
has included contingency management in a methadone-maintained population, the
efficacy of smoking cessation treatment in substance abuse rehabilitation programs,
and tobacco use counseling among homeless, recovering drug abusers. She has also
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been involved with smoking cessation among other populations, including a United
Nations Business Council project with employees of Fortune 500 companies in the
Northeast. Ms. Fink is also interested in nutrition and physical activity. Her master’s
thesis was on the demographic, behavioral, and genetic familial influences on child-
hood obesity.
Daniel J. Flanneryis Professor of Justice Studies and Director of the Institute for the
Study and Prevention of Violence at Kent State University. Prior appointments
include Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve
University and Assistant Professor of Family Studies at the University of Arizona.
Research interests are in aggression, delinquency, and youth violence with a focus on
etiology and on the relationship between violence and mental health. He received his
Ph.D. in clinical child psychology from The Ohio State University.
Michael J. Furlong is a professor and program leader of the Counseling/Clinical/
School Psychology Program and Special Education, Disability and Risk Studies at
the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Lynn Gilmanis a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Indiana University
and Assistant Director of the training clinic in the Department of Counseling and
Educational Psychology. The department training clinic provides individual, cou-
ples, and family counseling services to the local community. Her research interests
include training and supervision, particularly the supervision of evidenced-based
practice and the link between supervision and client outcome.
Patricia A. Graczyk is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute
for Juvenile Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology and School Psychology from
Northern Illinois University in 1998 and completed an NIMH prevention research
postdoctoral fellowship in 2001. Her primary research interests are childhood anxiety
and mood disorders, school-based mental health, and children's social competence.
Mark Griffithsstudied psychology at the University of Bradford, received his Ph.D.
in 1991 from the University of Exeter, was a lecturer of psychology at University of
Plymouth (1990–1995), and has been at Nottingham Trent University ever since. He
is now Europe’s only professor of gambling studies and has an interest in techno-
logical addictions. Mark has published over 120 refereed papers, two books, numer-
ous book chapters, and over 350 other articles.
Thomas P. Gullotta is C.E.O. of Child and Family Agency and is a member of the
psychology and education departments at Eastern Connecticut State University. He
is the senior author of the 4th edition of The Adolescent Experience, co-editor of The
Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, and is editor emeritus of the
Journal of Primary Prevention. He is the senior book series editor for Issues in Children's
and Families' Lives. Tom holds editorial appointments on the Journal of Early Adoles-
cence, The Journal of Adolescent Research,and the Journal of Educational and Psychologi-
cal Consultation. He has published extensively on adolescents and primary preven-
tion. Tom was honored in 1999 by the Society for Community Research and Action,
Division 27 of the American Psychological Association with their Distinguished Con-
tributions to Practice in Community Psychology Award.
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Tobias Hayer studied psychology at the University of Bremen and received his
diploma in 2001. Since 2001 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Psy-
chology and Cognition Research (University of Bremen). He conducts research on
issues related to problem gambling. Tobias is currently completing his doctoral dis-
sertation on the prevention of problem gambling.
David Hussey is a Faculty Associate at the ISPV and Assistant Professor of Justice
Studies at KSU. He is Director of Research at Beech Brook, a private center offering
comprehensive mental health services for youth and families. Research interests are
in systems of care and adoption studies. Dr. Hussey received his Ph.D. in social wel-
fare from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve
University.
Eric Jefferis is a Research Associate at Kent State University’s Institute for the
Study and Prevention of Violence. He serves as project director for the Northern
District of Ohio’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative and as Co-Principal Inves-
tigator for the Internet Mapping and Analysis for Police Problems Solving
(iMAPPS) project. Prior to joining the ISPV, Eric was a Social Science Analyst at the
National Institute of Justice. He is completing his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at the
University of Cincinnati.
Christine Johnson-Ericksonis a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology pro-
gram at Indiana University. She is a project leader at the Center for Adolescent and
Family Studies, a research center dedicated to disseminating and studying effective
treatments for at-risk adolescents and their families. She is trained in functional fam-
ily therapy, an evidence-based family-focused intervention. Her research interests
include marital distress and conflict, as well as process and outcome in marriage and
family therapy.
John Kalafat is a faculty member of Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Pro-
fessional Psychology. He has published widely on suicide prevention and program
evaluation and is co-author of Lifelines School Based Youth Suicide Response Pro-
gram. He is also a consultant on the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention CDC-funded
Targeted Injury Prevention Project, Past President and member of the Board of Direc-
tors of the American Association of Suicidology, and Member of the Scientific Advi-
sory Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Kirti N. Kanitkar has a bachelor’s in Psychology and an M.S. in Human Develop-
ment and Family Relations from the University of Mumbai, India. After working for
a year at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, she entered the doctoral pro-
gram at Texas Tech University in fall 2001. Her area of interest is adolescent risk-
taking behaviors, the processes through which adolescents engage in them, and
factors associated with increased risk, vulnerability, and resilient outcomes.
Tatyana Kharit is from Russia, and earned her M.D. from the Moscow Institute of
Health Ministry. She practiced general medicine for several years before immigrat-
ing to the United States. She is a second-year resident in psychiatry at MSU/KCMS.
She is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry, Michigan State Univer-
sity. She is involved in research that is looking at the use of antidepressant and
mood-stabilizing medications in the treatment of fibromyalgia.
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Theresa Kruczekis an Assistant Professor and Licensed Psychologist in Indiana. She
is the Director of the Counseling Practicum Clinic at Ball State University. Her
research focuses on identifying and promoting adaptive functioning in child sur-
vivors of sexual abuse. Previously, Dr. Kruczek was on faculty at the Medical College
of Virginia Hospital’s Virginia Treatment Center for Children, where she coordinat-
ed the child trauma services and conducted outcome research with adolescent sur-
vivors of sexual abuse.
Maritza Lagosis from Peru, but earned her M.D. from Volgograd State Medical Insti-
tute in Russia. She completed her general psychiatry residency at Michigan State
University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies (MSU/KCMS), where she served
as Chief Resident. She is currently on the faculty at MSU/KCMS, practicing adult
inpatient psychiatry, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at M.S.U.
Dr. Lagos is fluent in the reading, writing, and speaking of Spanish, Russian, and
English.
Carl G. Leukefeldis Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science and Director of
the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research at the University of Kentucky. He was a
commissioned officer and Chief Health Services Officer in the U.S. Public Health Ser-
vice, and for much of that time he was assigned to the National Institute on Drug
Abuse in various management and scientific capacities. He has given presentations
and has written over 120 articles as well as 15 books and monographs on treatment,
criminal justice, prevention, and AIDS. His research interests include judicial sanc-
tions, drug abuse treatment, rural services, and HIV.
Michael P. Levine is Samuel J. Cummings Professor of Psychology at Kenyon Col-
lege in Gambier, Ohio. Dr. Levine is a co-editor of The Developmental Psychopathology
of Eating Disorders (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996) and of Preventing Eating Disorders:
A Handbook of Interventions and Special Challenges (Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel,
1999). He is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a member of the
American Psychological Association.
Catherine Martinis an academic child psychiatrist and clinical researcher. The focus
of her research, clinical care, and teaching involves tobacco, alcohol, and other drug-
abuse risk in teenagers. Understanding the contribution of personality differences
and differences in drug effects to drug-abuse risk is of particular interest. Dr. Martin’s
administrative is Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry, a member
of the University of Kentucky’s Presidents Commission for Women, and a member
of the University Faculty Senate.
Judy A. McCown is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Doc-
toral Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit,
Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University
and maintains a private practice in psychology in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
Hope M. Smiley McDonaldis a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of
Kentucky. Her work focuses on studies related to drug courts, prisoner health serv-
ice utilization, substance abuse, and substance abuse treatment. Her interests include
treatment for drug-involved offenders, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse policy,
and prisoner re-entry.