Kaplan and Sadock's Concise Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Pages: 264, Specialty: Psychiatry, Publisher: Wolters Kluwer, Publication Year: 2009, Cover: Paperback, Dimensions: 186x264x16mm This book presents updated clinical material on child and adolescent psychiatry from the best-selling "Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, Tenth Edition". The coverage in this book includes clinically relevant information on: normal and abnormal development; examination; neuroimaging; learning, communication and behavioral disorders; adolescent substance abuse; forensic issues; and, the spectrum of psychiatric problems such as depression and bipolar disorders. Treatment chapters include a broad range of psychopharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic techniques, and the many controversies related to appropriate use of medication in children are addressed. The book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.show more