Psychosocial Treatments
18 PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS The ideal mental health service delivery system provides a continuum of care (i.e., integrated programs at all levels of intensity) in which the child and family can…
Special Clinical Circumstances
16 SPECIAL CLINICAL CIRCUMSTANCES This chapter covers a wide variety of situations and conditions that are not psychiatric diagnoses but in which psychiatric clinical skills may be useful or even…
Sleep-Wake Disorders
12 SLEEP-WAKE DISORDERS Nearly 25% of all children experience a sleep disorder at some time. Sleep complaints are related to the quality, timing, and amount of sleep. The common feature…
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
15 SUBSTANCE-RELATED AND ADDICTIVE DISORDERS CLINICAL DESCRIPTION DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013) no longer includes separate diagnoses for substance abuse and dependence. A single list of criteria is provided for…
Gender Dysphoria
13 GENDER DYSPHORIA KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY Sex refers to anatomical and genetic characteristics associated with being male or female. For most babies, a natal sex is assigned at birth…
Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
9 TRAUMA- AND STRESSOR-RELATED DISORDERS Trauma- and stressor-related disorders are a new category in DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013) that includes reactive attachment disorder, disinhibited social engagement disorder, posttraumatic stress…
Bipolar Disorder
5 BIPOLAR DISORDER CLINICAL DESCRIPTION DSM-5 breaks out bipolar and related disorders into their own chapter (American Psychiatric Association 2013). The DSM-5 criteria for bipolar disorders are the same for…
Anxiety Disorders
7 ANXIETY DISORDERS Although fears and anxiety occur normally during development (Table 7–1), anxiety disorders in children remain underrecognized and undertreated and can lead to lack of social competence, rejection…
Schizophrenia
4 SCHIZOPHRENIA CLINICAL DESCRIPTION Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that most commonly emerges in early adulthood. DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013) criteria for schizophrenia are the same at all ages….
Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
14 DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE-CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013) placed oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder into a new chapter that also includes intermittent explosive disorder (very rarely…
