Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 30: Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

The period of adolescence can be a time of great creativity, as new intellectual capacities emerge, and as the individual adolescent attempts to make sense out of inner and outer experience. Adolescent Psychiatry addresses the ways in which adolescent experience is transmuted into creative artistic production, as well as focuses on the relationship between creativity and psychopathology, and treatment for troubled adolescents. This enlightening volume presents numerous relevant studies to draw conclusions, and as a whole addresses topics including: *an innovative residential treatment program for gifted adolescents who have failed academically and rejected previous attempts at treatment; *motivational interviewing, a technique employed in the effort to find common ground between the therapist and patient; *the importance of understanding adolescent sexuality and how to approach the topic with patients in an appropriate manner; and *reactive attachmentdisorder and schizophrenia, two disorders that present major challenges to clinical skills.