This comprehensive review covers adolescent addiction, addressing prevalence, co-morbidity rates, risk factors, and prevention and treatment strategies. Unlike other texts that focus on a single addiction, it encompasses a variety of issues including alcohol, cannabis, tobacco, eating disorders, gambling, internet and video game addiction, and sex addiction. The book is organized into three sections: the first focuses on the classification and assessment of adolescent addiction. The second section features individual chapters on each type of addiction, detailing definitions, epidemiology, risk factors, co-morbidity, course and outcome, as well as prevention and intervention strategies. The third section delves into the assessment and treatment of co-morbid conditions, along with the social and political implications of these addictions. Aimed at clinicians treating adolescent addiction, it also serves as a valuable resource for researchers. Contributors hail from the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. The author, a professor of developmental psychopathology at Roehampton University, has extensive experience in child and adolescent psychopathology, with numerous publications in the field.
