Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

About the editor: Sarah Huline-Dickens - Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Plymouth Community Healthcare and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth.

A comprehensive update on the field that will inform the clinical practice of all child and adolescent mental health professionals.

List of tables; List of boxes; List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1. Child psychiatry and the people who have shaped it Sarah Huline-Dickens; 2. Fabrication and induction of illness in children Christopher Bass, Catia Acosta, Gwen Adshead and Gerry Byrne; 3. Personality disorders as disorganisation of attachment and affect regulation Jaydip Sarkar and Gwen Adshead; 4. Post-traumatic stress disorder and attachment: possible links with borderline personality disorder Felicity de Zulueta; 5. Management of antisocial behaviour in childhood Sajid Humayun and Stephen Scott; 6. Pharmacology for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder David Coghill and Eugenia Sinita; 7. Pharmacology for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, affective disorders and schizophrenia Eugenia Sinita and David Coghill; 8. Pharmacological management of core and comorbid symptoms in autism spectrum disorder Rachel Elvins and Jonathan Green; 9. Pharmacological treatment of depression and bipolar disorder Bernadka Dubicka, Paul Wilkinson, Raphael G. Kelvin and Ian M. Goodyer; 10. Cognitive-behavioural therapy with children, young people and families: from individual to systemic therapy Nicky Dummett and Roger Lakin; 11. Anxiety disorders Aaron K. Vallance and Victoria Fernandez; 12. Somatising: clinical presentations and aetiological factors Olivia Fiertag and Mary Eminson; 13. Somatising: management and outcomes Olivia Fiertag and Mary Eminson; 14. Evaluating psychological treatments for children with autism Patricia Howlin; 15. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: assessment and treatment Peter Hill; 16. Adolescent schizophrenia Chris Hollis; 17. Tourette syndrome Mary Robertson; 18. Sleep disorders Gregory Stores; 19. Self-harm in adolescents Alison Wood; 20. Adolescent substance misuse: an update on behaviours and treatments Paul McArdle and Bisharda Angom; 21. Eating disorders Dasha Nicholls and Elizabeth Barrett; 22. Gender dysphoria in young people Domenico Di Ceglie; 23. The psychiatry of 0- to 4-year-olds David Foreman; Index.