Description
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.
Features
--NEW: 50 per cent new contributors
--NEW: Evaluating polypharmaceutical approach
--Clinical vignettes
--Easy-to-read medication tables
--Suggested readings, including websites
About the Author(s)
- Keith Cheng MD
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University; Chief Medical Officer, Trillium Family Services, Portland, OR
- Kathleen M Myers MD, MPH, MS, FAACAP
- Associate Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Director, Telemental Health Service, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Specs
- Edition: Second
- Product Format: Hardbound
- ISBN: 9781605474434
- Trim Size: 7 x 10
- Pages: 560
- Pub Date: Oct 4, 2010
- Weight: 2.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Section I: EVALUATION
Chapter 1: Psychiatric Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Nancy C. Winters and Jenny Tsai
Chapter 2: Psychological Assessment
Norm Reed
Chapter 3: Rating Scales
Andrea K. Maikovich-Fong, Alison Leary, Brent Collett, and Kathleen M. Myers
Section II: PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Chapter 4: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Dorothy E. Stubbe
Chapter 5: Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
Francheska Perepletchikova
Chapter 6: Adolescent Substance-Use Disorders
Oscar G. Bukstein
Chapter 7: Pediatric Anxiety Disorders
Gail A. Bernstein and Andrea M. Victor
Chapter 8: Trauma and Associated Disorders
Toi Blakley Harris and John Sargent
Chapter 9: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Jamie Snyder
Chapter 10: Tourette's Syndrome
Ajit N. Jetmalani
Chapter 11: Child and Adolescent Depressive Disorders
Elizabeth McCauley, Gretchen R. Gudmundsen, Carol Rockhill, and My Banh
Chapter 12: Early Onset Bipolar Disorder
Gretchen R. Gudmundsen, Stefanie A. Hlastala, and Kathleen M. Myers
Chapter 13: Eating Disorders
Rosemary Calderon
Chapter 14: Elimination Disorders: Enuresis and Encopresis
Joan M. Daughton
Chapter 15: Early Onset Schizophrenia and Related Psychotic Disorders
Stefanie A. Hlastala, Ian Kodish, and Jon M. McClellan
Chapter 16: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Karen Toth and Bryan H. King
Chapter 17: Learning Disabilities
David Breiger and Jenise Jensen
Section III: SPECIAL ISSUES
Chapter 18: Early Childhood Mental Health in Clinical Practice
Mary Margaret Gleason and Chia Granda
Chapter 19: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Stephanie King and Heather Carmichael Olson
Chapter 20: Pediatric Sleep Problems
Elizabeth Super and Kyle P. Johnson
Chapter 21: Suicidality and Youth: Identification, Treatment and Prevention
Kelly Schloredt, Cynthia Flynn, Brent Collett, and Kathleen M. Myers
Chapter 22: Aggression by Children and Adolescents
Robert J. Hilt and William P. French
Chapter 23: Nutritional Aspects of Psychiatric Disorders
Ann Childers
Chapter 24: Caring for Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems in the General Health Setting
Rebecca A. Baum and Kelly J. Kelleher
Section IV: TREATMENT
Chapter 25: Psychopharmacology
Ajit N. Jetmalani
Chapter 26: Evidence-Based Psychotherapies
Keith Cheng and Cindy Smith
Chapter 27: Community-Based Systems of Care
Nancy C. Winters
Index
