Adolescent Mental Health: Selected Materials from the NCEMCH Reference Collection, April 1997.

Items in this annotated bibliography deal with the mental health of adolescents and include materials for adolescents, parents, health educators, and health professionals. Resources cited include 11 videotapes and 64 publications dealing with the following topics: (1) teenage suicide; (2) mental illness in the family; (3) coping; (4) teenage depression; (5) mental wellness; (6) stress reduction; (7) guidelines for parents; (8) emotional development of African American children; (9) adolescent health care; (10) psychosocial issues in adolescents; (11) counseling children and adolescents; (12) culturally competent care; (13) helping gay and lesbian youth; (14) financing mental health services for children and adolescents; (15) developing self-confidence; (16) nutrition; (17) eating disorders; (18) substance abuse; (19) affective disorder; (20) adolescent medicine; (21) alcohol; (22) treatment issues with Hispanic children; (23) preventative health services for adolescents; and (24) classification and diagnoses of child and adolescent mental health problems. (CR)