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Helping Your Troubled Teen

Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens

Cynthia S. Kaplan, Ph.D., Blaise A. Aguirre, M.D., and Michael Rater, M.D.

The first "adolescent primer" on the market

Destructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self mutilation (ie: cutting and burning), and eating disorders. These will be covered in detail, along with other issues like Internet addiction and suicide. These problems are not only detrimental to teens' mental and physical health, but the legal consequences for injurious behavior have also changed. Identification and prevention are the most important aspects in stopping teenage self-destructive behavior. This book offers a comprehensive look at teens self destructive behavior and gives parents solutions for dealing with it. Helping Your Troubled Teen instructs parents on how to identify an at-risk adolescent and discuss warning signs of injurious behavior, before the problem(s) become severe enough that a child is in crisis and/or legal actions are taken against them. Personal anecdotes and testimonials from both parents and their teenagers who have been confronted with and have engaged in self-destructive behavior are also included.

McLean Hospital is the largest psychiatric teaching facility of Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1811 as the original psychiatric department of the MGH, it moved to Belmont in 1895. McLean Hospital operates the largest psychiatric neuroscience research program of any Harvard University-affiliated facility and of any private psychiatric hospital in the country. The Child and Adolescent Program at McLean Hospital is one of the foremost clinical programs for helping young people and their families cope with psychiatric illness and the challenges it often brings. There are extensive ties with community services, and each therapeutic program of children and adolescents in inpatient, residential and outpatient services is tailored to the specific needs of the child and family.

Cynthia S. Kaplan, Ph.D., received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Fordham University in New York. Dr. Kaplan did her internship at Bronx State Hospital in New York and post-graduate studies at New York University. She practiced in New York for ten years, primarily seeing children and adolescents and working in the Albert Einstein and Montefiore hospital systems. After moving to Massachusetts in 1986, Dr. Kaplan worked at Charles River and Boston Regional Hospitals and has worked for more than fifteen years at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, where she is currently the administrative director of child and adolescent psychiatry, program director of the adolescent acute residential treatment programs, and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Blaise Aguirre, M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist and clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard University School of Medicine. Dr. Aguirre completed medical school at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School in the Republic of South Africa and residency training in psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Aguirre served as assistant director of training and instructor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine prior to his current position as a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts.

Michael Rater, M.D. is the medical director of the McLean Acute Residential and Partial Hospital Program, a member of the faculty of the McLean Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program, and a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical school training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School. Dr. Rater lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife and four children.

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