Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent

"Overmedicated and Undertreated:
How I Lost My Only Son to Today's Toxic Children's Mental Health Industry"

"This is an important book, wonderfully done. Steven Francesco brings a unique and valuable hybrid perspective to the topic. He weaves a story with a powerful message for all involved in today's U.S. children's mental health world. His recommendations are well thought-out and merit serious consideration by parents and mental health professionals."
- Elisabeth Rosenthal, Senior Writer, New York Times
Recipient of the 2014 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical...

DSM-5(R) Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich guide to the types of disorders commonly found in practice. The cases are either new or updated from the previous publication, which was designed as a child mental health casebook for DSM-IV-TR, and were chosen to illustrate advances in diagnosis and evidence-based assessment and treatment with DSM-5 in mind. For each case, commentaries are included from a child and adolescent psychiatrist...

The psychiatric interview is the foundation of the psychotherapeutic process and is critically important to establish trust, elicit useful responses, assess patient behavior and psychopathology, and establish treatment goals and plans. Building on the success of its predecessor, a highly regarded guide to interviewing young patients and their families, Psychiatric Interview of Children and Adolescents, has been thoroughly updated and painstakingly revised to address emerging issues and evolving treatment strategies in an accessible, down-to-earth, and comprehensive style and structure. The...

Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults -- A Practical Guide identifies assumptions about ADD/ADHD that demand reevaluation in light of recent research. Building upon a current, science-based foundation, the book describes in practical terms how ADHD can be recognized at various ages; how it differs from more typical brain development; how it can significantly impair those affected; and how it can safely, and in most cases effectively, be treated in children and adults. The book is based upon current scientific research but also on the experience and perspective of the...

Dieses Buch dokumentiert Ergebnisse eines von der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie e.V. (DGKJP) geforderten Forschungsprojektes zur Entstehungsphase der kinder- und jugendpsychiatrischen Fachgesellschaft. Hinzu treten weitere Beitrage zur Vorgeschichte und den Grenzgebieten des Faches im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Mit der Erhellung bislang unklar gebliebener Zusammenhange kann die Geschichte der Fachgesellschaft so auf eine neue Basis gestellt werden. Diese Perspektive wird erweitert durch den Einbezug zusatzlicher...

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This book provides a comprehensive review of the complex, growing mental health challenges faced by culturally diverse populations of children and adolescents.Suicide Among Diverse Youth: A Case-Based Guidebook is the first book of its kind, and is designed specifically to bridge the knowledge and skills gap encountered by most clinicians dealing with youth from diverse cultural backgrounds, particularly those different than that of the clinician.

The title begins with two introductory chapters, which cover cultural aspects of suicidality among youth, culturally informed...