Gender identity disorder in children and adolescents Richard Green Variance in psychosexual development Psychosexual development of sex-typed behaviours spans a broad mix of the elements that comprise ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’….
Suicide and attempted suicide in children and adolescents David Shaffer Cynthia R. Pfeffer Jennifer Gutstein* Introduction Suicidal behaviour is a matter of great concern for clinicians who deal with the…
Sleep disorders in children and adolescents Gregory Stores Introduction It was argued in Chapter 4.14.1 that sleep disorders medicine should be viewed as an integral part of psychiatry, whatever the…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and tics in children and adolescents Martine F. Flament Philippe Robaey Introduction Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been considered as a disorder of adulthood, the early child…
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 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 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 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 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 Helmut Remschmidt Gerd Schulte-Körne Introduction The term ‘specific developmental disorders’ includes a variety of severe and persistent difficulties in spoken language, spelling, reading,…
