Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition (Concise Guides) [Paperback]

Mina K. Dulcan (Author), D. Richard Martini (Author), Marybeth Lake (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1585620742 | ISBN-13: 978-1585620746 | Publication Date: April 2003 | Edition: 3

Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is an ideal resource for novicesApractical, easy-to-understand, and small enough to carry in a jacket pocket. The Third Edition of this invaluable reference summarizes fundamental information on mental health issues affecting children and adolescents, including: -Basic information on evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment planning -Sections on specific disorders, including epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, course and prognosis, evaluation and differential diagnosis, treatment monitoring, and relevant interventions -Details on treatment options, including psychosocial and psychopharmacological approaches -Simplified information on theoretical and research foundations, with references for further reading All the necessary basic information is here, organized for easy reference with a detailed table of contents, index, tables, figures, and other charts for quick access. The third edition has been expanded and updated to reflect the latest research on the emotional and behavioral states of children and adolescents. Readers will find new techniques for diagnosis and treatment, as well as updated information from DSM-IV-TR. Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition, is an invaluable resource for those just beginning to treat child psychiatry patients. Convenient and affordable, itAs also an outstanding on-the-spot reference for daily use in the clinic.

Editorial Reviews

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"Originally printed in 1991, the guide is now in its third edition. Following the accelerated pace of new research in child and adolescent psychiatry, the contents have been updated, and now relevant data have been incorporated into the text. Every effort has been made to include information that is as comprehensive as possible while maintaining the simplicity and brevity intended by the design of the book."-- "Ayesha Mian, M.D. and Cynthia W. Santos, M.D., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry", "June 2005"

About the Author

Mina K. Dulcan, M.D., is Margaret C. Osterman Professor of Child Psychiatry; Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at ChildrenÂs Memorial Hospital; Director of the Warren Wright Adolescent Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. MaryBeth Lake, M.D., is Director of Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at ChildrenÂs Memorial Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. D. Richard Martini, M.D., is Director of Consultation Liaison, Intake, and Emergency Services and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at ChildrenÂs Memorial Hospital. He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics at Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.; 3 edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585620742
• ISBN-13: 978-1585620746
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,143,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamentals, August 23, 2010

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This review is from: Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition (Concise Guides) (Paperback)

I used a previous version of this book to prepare for the boards in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This worked because the board exam tests for basic rather than arcane information.

4.0 out of 5 stars This is like a good spring roll., January 11, 2012

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This review is from: Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CONCISE GUIDES) (Paperback)

It is an appetizer, and sort of a helping hand, to get ready for the entrees (the real text books)
This is a great friend for a third year resident or a first year fellow, who has just come from the adult world. It is very helpful to have when you are rounding, or have a patient to see within the next few minutes, or a colleague might ask you a question at a presentation, or has asked you a question and are returning to you to discuss more about it....It has often helped me get more confidence when discussing any thing, as it brushes through the basics.

It is helpful in both the scenarios.
A. If you do not know anything about a topic this comes very handy to just get a basic idea of what the disease entity or the topic in conversation is even when you do not know a damn thing about it. This book gives you the bread and butter of a disorder viz. the etiology, signs (if any) symptoms, and management. It is sort of a reminder flash card, which you can keep in your pocket.
B. It is also very helpful, if we know about a topic and are just blanking at that time, very helpful to remember the data we might have read previously from a bigger book.

It is not an alternative or a shortcut to reading the real books, but it certainly gives a good framework to build around, and is also a small transitional object thing you can around in your coat pocket, to help you in the child psych rotation(for med students and residents), and to look "learned" in front of the med students and residents (for fellows).

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars childpsych, April 11, 2007

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This review is from: Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition (Concise Guides) (Paperback)

Very good review of current state of the art in child - less so in adoescent.