Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition

Abstract

Introduction, and chapter 2, Hvaluation and Treatment Planning, help medical students and clinicians who are still learning to organize their approach to children with possible mental health problems, there are excellent summary tables (for instance, there is one on psyclioeducational lests commonly used to evaluate children and one of structured interviews used in research) that those preparing for exams would do well to review. Topics include suicide, child maltreatment, sexual abuse and rape, otit-of-control behavior, family transitions, adolescent pregnancy, obesity, physically ill children, and children of psychiatrically ill parents.