| Description |
xi, 548 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Psychiatric assessment of children and adolescents / Nancy C. Winters and Jenny Tsai -- Psychological assessment / Norm Reed -- Rating scales / Andrea K. Maikovich-Fong, Alison Leary, Brent Collett, and Kathleen M. Myers -- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Dorothy E. Stubbe -- Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder / Francheska Perepletchikova -- Adolescent substance-use disorders / Oscar G. Bukstein -- Pediatric Anxiety disorders / Gail A. Bernstein and Andrea M. Victor -- Trauma and associated disorders / Toi Blakley Harris and John Sargent -- Obsessive compulsive disorder / Jamie Snyder -- Tourette's syndrome / Ajit N. Jetmalani -- Child and adolescent depressive disorders / Elizabeth McCauley, Gretchen R. Gudmundsen, Carol Rockhill, and My Banh -- Early onset bipolar disorder / Gretchen R. Gudmundsen, Stefanie A. Hlastala, and Kathleen M. Myers -- Eating disorders / Rosemary Calderon -- Elimination disorders: enuresis and encopresis / Joan M. Daughton -- Early onset schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders / Stefanie A. Hlastala, Ian Kodish, and Jon M. McClellan -- Autism spectrum disorders / Karen Toth and Bryan H. King -- Learning Disabilities David Breiger and Jenise Jensen -- Early childhood mental health in clinical practice / Mary Margaret Gleason and Chia Granda -- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders / Stephanie King and Heather Carmichael Olson -- Pediatric sleep problems / Elizabeth Super and Kyle P. Johnson -- Suicidality and youth: identification, treatment and prevention / Kelly Schloredt, Cynthia Flynn, Brent Collett, and Kathleen M. Myers -- Aggression by children and adolescents / Robert J. Hilt and William P. French -- Nutritional aspects of psychiatric disorders / Ann Childers -- Caring for children and adolescents with mental health problems in the general health setting / Rebecca A. Baum and Kelly J. Kelleher -- Psychopharmacology / Ajit N. Jetmalani -- Evidence-based psychotherapies / Keith Cheng and Cindy Smith -- Community-based systems of care / Nancy C. Winters |
| Summary |
"Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: The Essentials, Second Edition presents comprehensive yet practical information about psychiatric problems in children and adolescents that can be used in a wide variety of clinical settings. Written by both psychiatrists and primary care providers, this concise and readable text is divided into four sections on evaluation, specific disorders, special issues, and treatment. Clinical case studies reinforce the major points in each chapter and tables present at-a-glance information on psychotropic drugs for various disorders. This edition has fifty percent new contributing authors, more information on evaluating polypharmaceutic approaches, and new chapters on fetal alcohol syndrome, nutritional psychiatry, and evidence-based psychotherapies"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2005 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Child psychiatry.
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Adolescent psychiatry.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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Adolescent.
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Child.
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| Author |
Cheng, Keith.
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Myers, Kathleen M.
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| LC no. |
2010023516 |
| ISBN |
9781605474434 (alk. paper) |
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1605474436 (alk. paper) |
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