| Description |
1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Psychiatric labelling and social control |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119941002 |
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1119941008 |
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