Normal child and family development; Causes, classification and prevalence of child psychiatric disorders; Assessing children and their families; Conduct disorders; Neurotic, anxiety and emotional disorders; Major affective disorders and suicide; Pervasive developmental disorders; Schizophrenia and other psychoses of childhood; Hyperkinetic and attention deficit disorders; Specific delays in development; Enuresis and encopresis; Other clinical syndromes; Mind-body relationships; The psychiatry of infants and young children; Special problems in adolescence; Psychiatric disorders in the mentally retarded; Child psychiatry and the law; Child abuse and neglect; Treatment; Prevention; References; Glossary.