Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. the Essentials

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: New chapters on fetal alcohol syndrome, nutritional psychiatry, and evidence-based psychotherapies
• NEW: 50 per cent new contributors
• NEW: Evaluating polypharmaceutical approach
• Clinical vignettes
• Easy-to-read medication tables
• Suggested readings, including websites

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

Author Bio

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