Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: Content and Structure Jeff Q. Bostic M.D. Robert A. King M.D The goal of the clinical psychiatric assessment of a child or adolescent is…
Clinical Assessment of Infants and Toddlers Walter S. Gilliam Linda C. Mayes Why perform infant assessments? It is perhaps easier to state definitively what infant assessments cannot provide. They do…
Classification Fred R. Volkmar M.D. Mary Schwab-Stone M.D. Michael First M.D Principles of Classification The ability and the urge to classify are unique aspects of human experience. They provide us…
Developmental Psychopathology Suniya S. Luthar Rebecca P. Prince Developmental Psychopathology Defined: Major Features Developmental psychopathology is an integrative discipline, wherein principles from classical developmental theory are applied to investigate clinical…
Adolescence Robert A. King We are born, so to speak, twice over. Born in existence and born into life; born a human being and born a man. —Rousseau, Emile Adolescence…
Development of School-Age Children Lee Combrinck-Graham Geraldine S. Fox Introduction The middle years of childhood, spanning the age from when a child enters primary school through the onset of adolescence,…
The Preschool Child Laura Stout Sosinsky Walter Gilliam Linda Mayes The Preschool Child Between the ages of two to five years and under average conditions, children’s cognitive, social, and emotional…
The Infant and Toddler Linda C. Mayes Walter S. Gilliam Laura Stout Sosinsky The role of child psychiatry in care of infants and toddlers is expanding especially as the diagnostic…
Neurochemistry, Pharmacodynamics, and Biological Psychiatry George M. Anderson Andrés Martin Introduction Continuing advances in basic neurobiology and psychopharmacology have led to a greatly expanded knowledge of brain functioning and hold…
Neuroimaging Methods in the Study of Childhood Psychiatric Disorders The MRI Unit at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute Abbreviations AC Anterior Commissure ADHD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder BOLD Blood…
