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This book describes in detail a model of home-based care for children with serious psychiatric illnesses. The IICAPS model (Intensive, In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services) was developed by doctors at the Yale Child Center Study in 1996 and has proved effective in reducing the need for inpatient and other institution-based services.

Anorexia nervosa, obesity, failure to thrive and psychosocial dwarfism are among the major growth disorders considered in this volume. It describes the emergence and course of each specific disorder, discusses known or suspected risk factors and highlights unsolved clinical and research issues.