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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Goodman, Robert.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - New York Academy of Sciences Series . - New York Academy of Sciences Series .

Intro -- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -- Contents -- Foreword to First Edition -- Foreword to Third Edition -- Preface -- PART 1 Assessment, Classification and Epidemiology -- CHAPTER 1 Assessment -- Five key questions -- Symptoms -- Most patients have symptoms from more than one domain -- Impact -- Risk factors -- Strengths -- The family's explanatory model -- Some 'how to' tips -- How to: take the history from parents -- How to: see the child or adolescent alone -- How to: observe the family as a whole -- How to: obtain information from teachers -- How to: do a physical examination -- Putting it all together: the formulation -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 2 Classification -- The underlying principles guiding diagnostic groupings -- Making it useful -- Phenomenology above all -- Dimensions or categories? -- Identifying dimensions and categories -- Pervasive or situational? -- Classifying disordered individuals or disordered families? -- Diagnostic groupings: current practice -- ICD-10 and DSM-IV -- Operationalised diagnoses: pluses and minuses -- The main diagnostic groupings -- Multiaxial diagnosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 3 Epidemiology -- Advantages of an epidemiological approach -- Epidemiological studies are not always the best approach -- Stages in an epidemiological study -- Epidemiological findings in child and adolescent psychiatry -- Overall prevalence -- What is common? -- Comorbidity -- Most disorders go untreated -- Persistence -- Sex ratio and age of onset -- Aetiology -- Cross-cultural differences -- Time trends -- Subject review -- Further reading -- PART 2 Specific Disorders and Presentations -- CHAPTER 4 Autistic Spectrum Disorders -- Epidemiology -- Characteristic features -- Social impairment -- Communication impairment -- Restricted and repetitive activities and interests. Early onset -- Asperger syndrome -- Associated features of ASDs -- Intellectual disability -- Seizures -- Other psychiatric problems -- Assessment -- Differential diagnosis -- Developmental or acquired language disorders -- Intellectual disability without features of autism -- Intellectual disability with some features of autism -- Rett syndrome -- Neurodegenerative disorders with progressive dementia -- Disintegrative disorder -- Intense early deprivation -- The fragile X syndrome -- Deafness -- Aetiology and pathogenesis -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 5 Disorders of Attention and Activity -- Epidemiology -- Defining characteristics -- Marked restlessness, inattentiveness and impulsiveness -- Pervasiveness -- Chronicity and early onset -- Exclusion criteria -- Assessment of symptoms -- Additional features commonly associated with ADHD -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Treatment -- Education -- Psychological treatments -- Medication -- Diet -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 6 Disruptive Behaviour -- Psychiatric labelling and social control -- Dimension or category? -- Advantages of a dimension -- Disadvantages of a dimension -- Advantages of a category -- Disadvantages of a category -- Is disruptive behaviour a psychiatric problem? -- Symptoms and signs -- Associated features -- Psychiatric symptoms -- Educational failure -- Poor interpersonal relations -- Differential diagnosis -- Epidemiology -- Causes -- Genes or environment? -- Child-based mechanisms -- Immediate environment -- Wider environment -- Assessment -- Treatment -- Family- and school-focused -- Child- or adolescent-focused -- Community-focused -- Continuity and outcome -- Factors predicting outcome -- Type of adult outcome -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 7 Juvenile Delinquency -- Epidemiology. Age -- Sex -- Socio-economic status (SES) -- Race -- Epoch -- Locality -- Associated factors -- Family -- Individual factors -- Risk assessment -- Management -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 8 School Refusal -- Epidemiology -- Characteristic features -- Associated features -- Family factors -- Intelligence and attainments -- Personality -- Family composition -- Differential diagnosis -- Underlying psychiatric conditions in the child -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 9 Anxiety Disorders -- Epidemiology -- Causation -- Prognosis -- Varieties of anxiety disorder -- Specific phobias -- Separation anxiety disorder -- Generalised anxiety disorder -- Social anxiety disorder and social phobia -- Panic disorder -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 10 Depression -- Depression as a single symptom -- Depression as a symptom cluster -- Depression as a disorder -- Features of depression at different ages -- Depressive equivalents -- Epidemiology -- Classification -- Associated features -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 11 Mania -- Characteristic features -- Classical and juvenile-specific criteria for bipolar disorder -- Epidemiology -- Causation -- Treatment -- Bipolar disorder diagnosed with juvenile-specific criteria -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 12 Suicide and Deliberate Self-harm -- Completed suicide -- Epidemiology -- What protects younger children? -- Background factors -- Precipitating factors and motivation -- Biological risk -- Management -- Deliberate self-harm (DSH) -- Background factors -- Precipitating factors -- Motivation -- Assessment -- Management -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 13 Stress Disorders -- Assessment -- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Diagnostic criteria for PTSD -- Clinical manifestations -- Moderating variables -- Epidemiology -- Physiological changes -- Treatment -- Prevention -- Acute stress disorder -- Adjustment disorder -- Bereavement -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 14 Obsessive-compulsive Disorder -- Epidemiology -- Characteristic features -- Associated features -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 15 Tourette Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders -- Classification -- Epidemiology -- Characteristic features -- Associated features -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Treatment -- Prognosis of Tourette syndrome -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 16 Selective Mutism -- Epidemiology -- Associated features -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 17 Attachment Disorders -- Varieties of attachment disorder -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- Attachment disorders v. insecure attachment -- Assessment of the child -- Assessment of the care received -- Management -- Course and prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 18 Enuresis -- Nocturnal enuresis -- Primary and secondary -- Prevalence -- Risk factors -- Pathophysiology -- Assessment -- Prognosis -- Treatment -- Behavioural measures -- Medication -- Diurnal enuresis -- The link with psychiatric problems -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 19 Faecal Soiling -- Types of soiling and their management -- Constipation with overflow -- Failed toilet training -- Toilet phobia -- Stress-induced loss of control -- Provocative soiling -- Prognosis of soiling -- Associated psychiatric disorders -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 20 Sleep Disorders -- Normal sleep -- Epidemiology of sleep problems -- Presentation. Specific types of sleep disturbance -- Difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep -- Circadian sleep-wake cycle disorder -- Obstructive sleep apnoea -- Night terrors, sleepwalking and confusional arousals -- Nightmares -- Rhythmic movement disorder -- Narcolepsy and related symptoms -- Kleine-Levin syndrome -- Medication -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 21 Psychosomatics -- Some general principles -- Stress and anxiety can initiate and amplify somatic symptoms -- Somatic symptoms can sometimes be a 'mask' -- Health and illness can each be self-perpetuating -- An accusatory stance is counterproductive -- Factors in the child or adolescent -- Factors in the family -- External stressors -- Approach to management -- Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) -- Factors in the children and adolescents -- Factors in the family -- External stressors -- Natural history -- Treatment -- Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) -- Conversion disorders -- The children and adolescents -- The family -- The context and outcome -- Treatment -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 22 Preschool Problems -- Common problems -- Outcome in later childhood -- Outcome in adulthood -- Treatment -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 23 Introduction to Adolescence and Its Disorders -- A potted history of adolescence -- Rules and autonomy -- Biological and social influences interact -- Cognitive development -- Identity -- Solving problems and weathering stress -- Epidemiology of adolescent psychiatric disorders -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 24 Schizophrenia -- Epidemiology -- Characteristic features -- Antecedents of schizophrenia -- Differential diagnosis -- Causation -- Clinical course and treatment -- Prognosis -- Subject review -- Further reading -- CHAPTER 25 Eating Disorders -- Anorexia nervosa -- Diagnosis -- Epidemiology -- Causation -- Treatment -- Prognosis. Bulimia nervosa.

9781119941002


Adolescent psychiatry.
Child psychiatry.


Electronic books.

RJ499 .G66 2012

618.92/89

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