Bookeditors, Andrés Martin, Michael H. Bloch, Fred R. Volkmar.
Contents:
SECTION I. AN APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE
1.1 The Art of the Science: A Child, Family and Systems-Centered Approach / Kyle D. Pruett
1.2 Ethics / Adrian Sondheimer
1.3 A History of Child Psychaitry / Deborah Blythe Doroshow
1.4 Education and Training / Dorothy E. Stubbe and Eugene V. Beresin
1.5 Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health / Myron L. Belfer, Hesham M. Hamoda, and Maurice Eisenbruch
1.6 Child and Family Policy: a Role for Child Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines / Walter S. Gilliam, Matia Finn-Stevenson, Liane Taylor, and Edward F. Zigler
1.7 Money Matters: Funding Care / Martin Knapp, David McDaid, and Emma Wilson. SECTION II. A DEVELOPMENTAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 Normal Development
2.1.1 The Infant and Toddler / Linda C. Mayes, Walter S. Gilliam, and Laura Stout Sosinsky
2.1.2 The Preschool Child / Laura Stout Sosinsky, Walter S. Gilliam, and Linda C. Mayes
2.1.3. Development of School-Age Children / Lee Combrinck-Graham and Geraldine S. Fox
2.1.4 Adoescence / Robert A. King and Helena J. V. Rutherford
2.2 DIVERSE POPULATIONS
2.2.1 Cultural Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / G. Pirooz Sholevar and Shashank V. Joshi
2.2.2 Psychiatric Care of the Deaf, Blind, or Deaf-Blind Child / Karen A. Goldberg and Jana K. Dreyzehner
2.2.3 Sexual Minority Youth: Identity, Role, and Orientation / Cynthia J. Tellingator, Eric N. Boyum, and Peter T. Daniolos
2.3 Developmental Psychopathology / Suniya S. Luthar. SECTION III. A DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
3.1 Research Methodology
3.1.1. Understanding Research Methods and Statistics: a Primer for Clinicians / George A. Morgan, Jeffrey A. Gliner, and Robert J. Harmon
3.1.2 Evidence-Based Practice as a Conceptual Framework / John Hamilton
3.1.3 Respect for Children as Research Subjects / Robert J. Levine
3.2. Epidemiology / Eric Fombonne
3.2.2 Health Promotion and Prevention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Kerry O'Loughlin, Robert R. Althoff, and James J. Hudziak
3.3 Neurobiology and Genetics
3.3.1. From Genes to Brain: Developmental Neurobiology / Hanna E. Stevens, James F. Leckman, Paul J. Lombroso, and Flora M. Vaccarino
3.3.2. Assessing Risk: Gene Discovery / Thomas V. Fernandez, Abha R. Gupta, and Ellen J. Hoffman
3.3.3 Molecular Basis of Select Childhood Psychiatric Disorders / Simone Tomasi , Jessica B. Lennington, James F. Leckman, and Paul J. Lombroso. SECTION IV. CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND NOSOLOGY
SECTION V. SPECIFIC DISORDERS AND SYNDROMES
SECTION VI. TREATMENT
SECTION VII. INTERFACE AREAS OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY