Child Psychiatry
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-262142-9 (ISBN)
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This comprehensive text covers all aspects of child psychiatry, including methods of assessment and treatment. The introductory section of the book contains an overview of the subject and a discussion of classification and assessment of and parental influences on the psychiatric and psychological disorders of childhood. The next section describes the normal and abnormal patterns of child behaviour in many different areas, such as sleeping, eating, language and learning, and emotional disorders. A discussion of adult-type psychiatric disorders is then followed by extensive coverage of the psychosocial aspects of physical disorders, discussing their impact on both the child and parents and siblings. The text is concluded by sections on preventiona nd treatment, and on the various services available to professionals and the parents and children. New sections have been added by the author for his edition, including those on theoretical aproaches, post-traumatic stress disorder and the classification systems ICD-10 and DSM 111-R.
The book is particularly intended for paediatricians and psychiatrists in training, but may also prove useful to general practitioners and health visitors and all trainees and those qualified in child psychiatry, psychology, and psychiatric and paediatric nursing.
Part 1 Overview: assessment; family influences and parenting disturbances. Part 2 Development and its disorders: foetal and infant development; feeding and eating control disorders; sleep and its disorders; motor development and disorders of movement; language and its disorders; intelligence and learning disorders; emotional development and disorders of mood; later social development; sensory development; sphincter control; sexual development; personality development. Part 3 Adult-type psychiatric disorders: psychoses; neurotic, somatoform and stress-related disorders; drug and alcohol use and abuse; child-adult - continuities in psychiatric disorders. Part 4 Psychosocial aspects of physical disorders - general: impact on parents, the child, the sibs; principles of psychosocial management of physically handicapped children and their families; hospitalization; care of the dying child. Part 5 Psychosocial aspects of specific physical conditions: stillbirth and neonatal death; sudden infant death syndrome (cot death); chromosomal abnormalities; malformations; injuries to children; infectious diseases; disorders of the central nervous system and muscle; metabolic dosorders; endocrine disorders; blood disorders; respiratory disorders; genitourinary disorders; disorders of the alimentary tract; congenital heart disease; skin disorders; immunodeficiency disorders; juvenile chronic arthritis. Part 6 Prevention and treatment. Part 7 Services: primary and secondary health care; mental health services for children; social welfare services and child protection; school influences and special education.
| Zusatzinfo | line drawings, tables, bibliography |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 859 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-262142-4 / 0192621424 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-262142-9 / 9780192621429 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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