American Psychiatric Association Publishing Clinical Manual of Youth Addictive Disorders

It has been a research-intensive and clinically productive decade since publication of Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment. This new manual reflects that fecundity and progress. Thoroughly updated and expanded, the book focuses on the clinical implications of beginning substance use and the pathways to substance use disorders (SUDs) and coexisting disorders among adolescents and college-age emerging adults (ages 12–25 years). This new manual not only captures the advances made in the youth substance use and SUD domains covered in the previous manual, but also includes new and critically important topics that have emerged in the interim, such as pediatric assessment and intervention, electronic tools for assessment and treatment, maternal fetal addiction, cannabis and e-cigarette use harmfulness, and the new products/delivery systems and innovative patterns of use that have surfaced. Staying abreast of this rapid expansion of this age group–specific knowledge base is a must for a wide range of clinicians and health service providers, and the book presents this valuable material in an authoritative and accessible manner. Clinical Manual of Youth Addictive Disorders is the updated, comprehensive, and clinically oriented text for which physicians, mental health professionals, addiction specialists, drug treatment service providers, applied researchers, and public health policy makers have been waiting.