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 Treatment

Editor: Cecilia A. Essau
Roehampton University, London

Table of Contents

Preface Cecilia A. Essau

Part 1. General Issues

Chapter 1. Foundations of Addictive Problems: Developmental, Social and Neurobiological Factors
Michele Preyde & Gerald Adams

Chapter 2. Classification and Assessment of Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
Ty A. Ridenour, Bethany C. Bray, Heather S. Scott, & Linda B. Cottler

Part II. Specific Adolescent Addiction

Chapter 3. Alcohol Use, Abuse and Dependence
Cecilia A. Essau & Delyse Hutchinson

Chapter 4. Cannabis Abuse and Dependence
Wayne Hall, Louisa Degenhardt, & George Patton

Chapter 5. Tobacco Use and Dependence
Judith S. Brook, Kerstin Pahl, & David W. Brook

Chapter 6. Eating Addiction
David H. Gleaves & Janet D. Carter

Chapter 7. Gambling Practices among Youth: Etiology, Prevention and Treatment
Rina Gupta & Jeffrey L. Derevensky

Chapter 8. Internet and Video-game Addiction
Mark Griffiths

Chapter 9. Teen Sexual Addiction
Steve Sussman

Part III. Epilogue

Chapter 10. Comorbidity of Addictive Problems: Assessment and Treatment Implications
Cecilia A. Essau

Chapter 11. Social and Political Implications
Paul McArdle