Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent

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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For generations of practitioners, the Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry has been and is the "gold standard" guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions.

Much like the patients on which it focuses, the field of pediatric mental health continues to grow and develop. Among other advances, the body of clinical research and the number of empirically supported treatments have grown, evaluation practices have been refined, and awareness of emotional and behavioral problems in youth has increased.

Stay up-to-date on significant DSM-5 changes to psychiatric nomenclature and criteria -- and the developments that have spurred them -- with the Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

This fifth edition prunes older content while...

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...