Adolescent Addiction

Cecilia A. Essau is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Roehampton, UK where she is Director of Centre for Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Wellbeing (CARACAW). She received her PhD from the University of Konstanz (Germany), and her “Habilitation” in Psychology (qualification for tenure-track professorships in Germany) from the University of Bremen (Germany). She is the first Iban woman to have received a PhD.Professor Essau has Visiting Chairs at numerous universities, including the Norman Munn Distinguished Visiting Scholar from Flinders University, and the Florey Medical Research Foundation Mental Health Visiting Professor from the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2011, she was made Fellow of the British Psychological Society in recognition of her contribution to the field of Psychology. She is also Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Her research focuses on understanding factors that can lead young people to have serious emotional and behavioural problems and using this research to both enhance the assessment of childhood and adolescent psychopathology, and design more effective interventions to prevent and treat such problems. She is the author of 222 articles, and is the author/editor of 20 books in the area of youth mental health. Paul graduated from the University of Adelaide with degrees in Arts, Commerce and Economics and a PhD in psychology. He has published extensively in several areas, including the psychology of gambling, child protection and child welfare and applied cognition. He has over 300 publications in these areas including over 220 national and international refereed journal articles. His recent research interests in addiction have related to: the cross-over between gambling and gaming; the relationship between clinical co-morbidity and problem gambling; gambling-harm; the psychology of gaming machines and the behavioural indicators of problem gambling and harm.

• Adolescent Addiction: Epidemiology, Assessment, and TreatmentEditor:Cecilia A. EssauRoehampton University, London Table of ContentsPrefaceCecilia A. Essau Part 1.General IssuesChapter 1.Foundations of Addictive Problems: Developmental, Social and Neurobiological FactorsMichele Preyde & Gerald AdamsChapter 2.Classification and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders in AdolescentsTy A. Ridenour, Bethany C. Bray, Heather S. Scott, & Linda B. CottlerPart II.Specific Adolescent AddictionChapter 3.Alcohol Use, Abuse and DependenceCecilia A. Essau & Delyse HutchinsonChapter 4.Cannabis Abuse and DependenceWayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt, & George PattonChapter 5.Tobacco Use and DependenceJudith S. Brook, Kerstin Pahl, & David W. BrookChapter 6.Eating AddictionDavid H. Gleaves & Janet D. CarterChapter 7.Gambling Practices among Youth: Etiology, Prevention and TreatmentRina Gupta & Jeffrey L. DerevenskyChapter 8.Internet and Video-game AddictionMark GriffithsChapter 9.Teen Sexual AddictionSteve SussmanPart III.EpilogueChapter 10.Comorbidity of Addictive Problems: Assessment and Treatment ImplicationsCecilia A. EssauChapter 11.Social and Political ImplicationsPaul McArdle