Philip Graham, Jeremy Turk, Frank Verhulst

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

A Developmental Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a new edition of one of the standard international textbooks on child and adolescent mental health, with an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues. Its comprehensive multidisciplinary perspective covers a vast range of topics, making it the essential text for all trainees in child and adolescent mental health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 4. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 590
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1004g
• ISBN-13: 9780198526124
• ISBN-10: 0198526121
• Artikelnr.: 21369378

Autorenporträt

Frank Verhulst is professor and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His main research interest is in child psychiatric epidemiology, with a focus on longitudinal research. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed articles, and (co-)author of several books written in Dutch or English. Jeremy Turk is Professor Developmental Psychiatry and Head of Academic Child & Adolescent Mental Health at St. George's, University of London, and Honorary Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, South West London & St. George's Mental Health NHS Trust where he is Clinical Team Leader on the Child Mental Health Learning Disability Service and Trustwide Clinical Lead for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services. He is also Consultant Psychiatrist to the National Autistic Society Centre for Social & Communication Disorders and President of the Royal Society of Medicine Intellectual Disability Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Familial influences
3: Neurodevelopment and neuropsychiatric disorders
4: Developmental psychopathology
5: Adolescence and psychiatric disorders often beginning in adolescence
6: Child-adult continuities in psychiatric disorders
7: Psychosocial aspects of physical disorders
8: Psychological aspects of specific physical conditions
9: Prevention and treatment
10: Services