Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Change in Children and Adolescents - an Overview of Diagnosis, Treatment - an Overview; Evaluation and Treatment Planning - Evaluation, Treatment Planning, Feedback; Axis Disorders Usually First Evident in Infancy, Childhood or Adolescence - Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behaviour Disorders - Introduction, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder (CD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD); Other Axis I Disorders Usually First Diagnozed in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence -Separation Anxiety Disorders (SAD), Feeding and Eating Disorders, Tourette's Disorder and Other Tic Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Selective Mutism, Reactive Attachment Disorder of Infancy or Early Childhood; "Adult" Disorders That May Begin in Childhood or Adolescence - Eating Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders, Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Gender Identity Disorder (GID), Sleep Disorders; Parasomnias, Adjustment Disorders; Developmental Disorders - Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Specific Developmental Disorders; Special Clinical Circumstances -Emergencies, Family Transitions, Adolescent Pregnancy, Obesity, Physically Ill Children and Children of Adolescents, Stimulants, Antidepressants, Lithium Carbonate, Neuroleptics, Minor Tranquilizers, Sedatives and Hypnotics, Anticonvulsants, Antihistamines, Antiparkinsonian Agents, Clonidine and Tenex, Propranolol; Psychosocial Treatments - Communication With Children and Adolescents, The Resistant Child or Adolescent, Types of Individual Psychotherapy, Parent Counselling, Behaviour Therapy, Family Treatment, Group Therapy, Wrap-Around Services, Hospitalization and Residential Treatment, Day Treatment, Adjunctive Treatments, Appendix - Books for Parents - Managing Child Behaviour, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Medication, Anxiety, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Depression.