BookM. Shimizu (ed.).
Summary: Child and adolescent psychiatry is a complex clinical discipline whose practitioners work in close cooperation with their professional colleagues in clinical medicine, education, social welfare, sociology, family relations theory, and legal affairs. This volume, the first of its kind to be published in Japan, provides a broad-ranging view of recent progress in the rapidly developing field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Topics include infant psychiatry, developmental disorders, the interface between education and psychiatry (especially as it relates to the phenomenon of "school refusal") neurotic disorders, and adolescent psychoses, as well as parental power and child abuse, and psychiatric problems surrounding organ transplantation in children. The section on autism and education focuses on problems of autistic children reaching adolescence, a subject that has rarely been treated so directly. Also of clinical interest and importance is the discussion presented here of high-risk factors for adolescent psychosis. This volume, with contributions by leading professionals in the field, is a valuable source and reference for practitioners, researchers, and students of child and adolescent psychiatry and clinical psychology
Contents:
1. Developmental Disorders
Present Conditions and Problems at Facilities for Autistic Adults
Psychosexual Development of Autistic Children During Adolescence
Regression in Mental Development Following a Psychosocial Stressor in Disintegrative Psychosis
Longitudinal Study on Treatment and Outcome for Autistic Children
Review of Learning Disability Studies in Japan
2. Infant Psychiatry
Infant Psychiatry: Review of Recent Trends
3. School Refusals
Nonattendance at School (School Phobia): Clinical Aspects and Psychopathology
School Refusal and Family Pathology: Individualized and Multifaceted Approach
Study on the Experience of Being Bullied: Children Refusing School Who Resort to Violence Within the Family
Education and Its Relation to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Problem of School Hating
Nosological Constellation of School Refusal Syndrome
4. Neurotic Disorders
Clinical Study of Conversion Disorders in Adolescents
Clinical Picture of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder During Childhood
5. Psychotic Disorders
Developmental Profiles: Early-Onset Compared to Late-Onset Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
Clinical Study of Childhood Schizophrenia
Depressive Disorder During Childhood and Adolescence in Japan
6. Other Fundamental Problems
Psychiatric Problems of Living Kidney Transplantation in Child and Adolescent Recipients
Child Abuse and Parental Power in Japan
Training and Education of Child Mental Health Professions in Japan
Keyword Index
Author Index.