Paediatric mood disorders
Paediatric mood disorders David Brent Boris Birmaher In this chapter, we describe the nosology and epidemiology of paediatric unipolar and bipolar disorders, risk factors and predictors of course, and the…
Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence
Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence Daniel S. Pine Introduction The term ‘fear’ refers to the brain state evoked by dangerous stimuli that are avoided because they are capable of…
Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence
Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence Stephen Scott Introduction The term conduct disorder refers to a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviour in which the individual repeatedly breaks social rules and…
Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in childhood and adolescence
Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in childhood and adolescence Eric Taylor Introduction The concept of ADHD arose from neurological formulations, but does not entail them, and the modern definition simply…
Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders
Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders Fred R. Volkmar Ami Klin Introduction The pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) are characterized by patterns of deviance and delay in social-communicative development in the…
Specific developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Specific developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence Helmut Remschmidt Gerd Schulte-Körne Introduction The term ‘specific developmental disorders’ includes a variety of severe and persistent difficulties in spoken language, spelling, reading,…
Neuropsychiatric disorders
Neuropsychiatric disorders James C. Harris The developmental perspective Developmental neuropsychiatry addresses the neurobiological basis of behaviour in infants, children, and adolescents with neuro-developmental disorders and in those with brain damage…
Prevention of mental disorder in childhood and other public health issues
Prevention of mental disorder in childhood and other public health issues Rhoshel Lenroot Introduction Over the last two decades advances in psychiatric classification systems and screening tools have allowed the…
Assessment in child and adolescent psychiatry
Assessment in child and adolescent psychiatry Jeff Bostic Andrés Martin The goals of assessment of a child/adolescent are to (1) detect psychopathology and its impacts on the child’s functioning in…
Epidemiology of psychiatric disorder in childhood and adolescence
Epidemiology of psychiatric disorder in childhood and adolescence E. Jane Costello Adrian Angold Epidemiology is the study of patterns of disease in human populations.(1) Patterns are non-random distributions, and patterns…
