With the combined expertise of 60 authorities in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, the second edition of the "Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" provides a comprehensive and clinically-oriented resource for the entire spectrum of psychiatric professionals from medical students to clinicians. Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect DSM-IV, this second edition includes a new chapter on changes in DSM-IV classification and discusses the latest research and treatment advances in the areas of epidemiology, genetics, developmental neurobiology, assessment instrumentation and diagnostic neuroimaging, traumatology, psychopharmacology and combined treatments. To make the text especially useful to the clinician, each disorder is organized by DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, clinical description, epidemiology, and treatment and research issues. A special section covers essential issues for the child and adolescent psychiatrist such as HIV and AIDS, gender identity disorders, physical and sexual abuse, and substance abuse. The "Textbook" also contains an expanded discussion of diagnostic classification and an updated section on treatment options.
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"This textbook will sit well in the library of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department or Mental Health Unit.... It will... be helpful for many child and adolescent psychiatrists seeking an up-to-date, well-presented, comparatively succinct reference to DSM-IV and related knowledge from an American perspective."- "Child Psychology & Psychiatry"
About the Author
Jerry M. Wiener, M.D.,was the Leon Yochelson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
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Child and Adolescent Pyschiatry Made Easy,
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This is a fascinating book, a must have for all who are in, or are planning to be in the field of child and adolescent psychology. This compendium gives a marvelous array of psychological disorders, diagnositic tools, and DMS IV criteria. This book will pay for itself in diagnostic speed and accuracy.
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