Part 1 Asessment: including interviewing, formulation. Part 2 Developmental perspectives: including physical growth, social demands, cognitive development, language development, psychosocial development. Part 3 The families of adolescents: including control and communication, alienation, divorce, single-parent families, step-families, fostering, adoption, leaving home, mundane truculence at home. Part 4 Adolescent turmoil - myth and substance. Part 5 Epidemiology: prevalence of psychiatric disorders; the pattern of disorders. Part 6 Personality and personality disorder. Part 7 Antisocial behaviour: juvenile delinquency; aggressive behaviour. Part 8 Depression. Part 9 Suicidal behaviour: including suicide, overdoses, wrist cutting. Part 10 Anxiety-related disorders: worries; fears and phobias; anxiety states and panic attacks; depersonalisation; obsessive-compulsive disorder. Part 11 Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa; the bulimic syndrome. Part 12 Sexual aspects: normal sexual development; schoolgirl pregnancies; homosexuality; flashers and fumblers; cross-dressing; Klinefelter's syndrome; sexual abuse. Part 13 Schizophrenia. Part 14 Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. Part 15 Disorders of sleep: including parasomnias, hypersomnias. Part 16 Interactions with physical conditions: responses to acute serious illness or injury; specific physical conditions; myalgic encephalomyelitis and post-viral syndromes; hysteria. Part 17 Developmental disability: mental handicap; autism; physical disability. Part 18 School-related problems: educational underachievement; mobbing; school refusal. Part 19 Substance abuse: cannabis; stimulants and other pills; heroin; concepts of drug abuse; clinical management; alcohol; volatile substance abuse. Part 20 Treatment interventions - provisions: general out-patient and community services; adolescent units; resources of social services departments; resources of education departments; the voluntary sector. Part 21 Treatment interventions - methods: individual counselling and psychotherapy; group psychotherapy; family therapy; behaviour therapy; social skills training; activity therapies; pharmacological and physical treatments; consultation.
