Child and adolescent psychiatry : a practical guide

✍ Scribed by Dorothy Stubbe MD

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Series: Practical guides in psychiatry
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by the training director of Yale Child Study Center's world-renowned psychiatry program, this practical handbook is a quick, concise guide for professionals on the front lines of child and adolescent mental health care. Using the conversational style and clinical vignettes found in all Practical Guides in Psychiatry titles, Dr. Stubbe takes clinicians through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering essential fast facts and effective patient care strategies. Sections cover psychiatric evaluation; disorders seen in infants, children, and adolescents; treatment modalities and treatment planning; and special circumstances including psychiatric emergencies, child neglect and abuse, and family issues. Easy-to-use appendices include rating scales and resource information.

The Practical Guides in Psychiatry series provides quick, concise information for professionals on the front lines of mental health care. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, these invaluable resources take you through each step of the psychiatric care process, delivering fast facts and helpful strategies that help you provide effective and compassionate care to your patients.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface --
Section 1: General principles of development and the psychiatric evaluation of children and adolescents --
ch. 1. Overview of development --
ch. 2. The psychiatric evaluation --
Section 2 : Axis 1 disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence --
Part A : Developmental disorders --
ch. 3. Mental retardation --
ch. 4. Learning disorders --
ch. 5. Pervasive developmental disorders : the autism spectrum disorders --
Part B : Disruptive behavior disorders --
ch. 6. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder --
ch. 7. Conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder --
Part C : Other disorders of infancy, childhood, or adolescence --
ch. 8. Separation anxiety disorder --
ch. 9. Selective mutism --
Part D : Tic disorders --
ch. 10. Tourette and other tic disorders --
Part E : Elimination disorders --
ch. 11. Elimination disorders : functional encopresis and functional enuresis --
Part F : Feeding and eating disorders of infancy or early childhood --
ch. 12. Feeding and eating disorders of infancy or early childhood : Pica, Rumination disorder, feeding disorder of infancy or early childhood. Section 3 : General psychiatric disorders that may begin in childhood or adolescence --
ch. 13. Depressive disorders : major depression, dysthymia, depression NOS --
ch. 14. Juvenile onset bipolar disorder --
ch. 15. Anxiety disorders : generalized anxiety, phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder --
ch. 16. Early onset schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders --
ch. 17. Eating disorders : anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa --
ch. 18. Substance use disorders --
ch. 19. Trauma-related disorders --
ch. 20. Adjustment disorders --
Section 4 : Special clinical circumstances --
ch. 21. Psychiatric emergencies in child an adolescent psychiatry --
ch. 22. Child neglect and abuse --
Section 5 : Treatment --
ch. 23. Principles of treatment planning --
ch. 24. Psychopharmacology --
ch. 25. Psychosocial interventions --
ch. 26. Psychoeducational interventions --
ch. 27. Consultations to systems of care. Appendices --
1a. Essentials of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Evaluation/Report --
1b. Psychiatric review of symptoms --
1c. Medication appointment record --
1d. Abnormal involuntary movement scale (AIMS) --
1e. The Simpson-Angus Scale (SAS) --
2a. Rating scales --
2b. Commonly used tests : assessment of children and youth --
3a. DSM-IV-TR mnemonics --
4. Resources for parents --
Suggested readings.