Anyone working within the fields of youth and community work may come into contact with young people who display difficult, disturbing, and dangerous behavior patterns. It is important that workers understand the causes of such behavior and find out how to help change it. This book shows how distress and disturbance are created in young people, causing their behavior to become difficult and problematic, not only to themselves, but also to other individuals and even the wider society. Using the latest evidence-based theories, the book shows how to detect and diagnose problems and work out strategies for helping young people in distress. Up-to-date ideas about child and adolescent development are linked to real examples and are explained in a way that is readily understandable. It also explains how to assess and handle situations in which serous psychological problems are becoming apparent, and it offers advice on how to differentiate between common problems in growing up and more distre