Clinical Child Psychiatry

Clinical Child Psychiatry, Second Edition is the successor of the successful textbook edited by Drs Klykylo and Kay in 1998. This book comprises a textbook of current clinical practice in child and adolescent psychiatry. It is midway in size between the small handbooks that provide mainly a list of disorders and treatments, and the large, often multi-volume texts that are comprehensive but not easily accessible. It is designed to be a reference for clinicians that is both easily usable and authoritative, a “chairside” reference for the consultation room. This book addresses a defined series of clinical entities that represent the bulk of current treatment modalities and disorders encountered in 21st-century practice. It is designed to be authoritative in the areas addressed while at the same time being rapidly accessible in format. To facilitate access, it presents disorders in declining order of frequency. The authors believe that worthwhile clinical work must be informed both by evidence-based practices and by psychiatry’s traditional attention to internal and interpersonal dynamics. They are committed to an approach that is broadly biopsychosocial while based on current clinical evidence for a pragmatic, clinical focus. It is divided into thirty chapters in three sections. The first section “fundamentals of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Practice, ” addresses assessment, treatment modalities, and planning. The second section is “Common Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders” and covers the diagnosis and treatment of a large majority of disease entities encountered in practice. The final section, “Special problems in child and adolescent Psychiatry, ” includes a variety of topics such as foster care and adoption, loss and grief, sleep disorders, forensics, and current socioeconomic challenges. We have already produced a successful and well-received work that seemed to meet its goals well. It was very well received by both psychiatrists and other physicians, despite not being marketed extensively to non-psychiatrists. After 6 years, it is ready for an update. Our book addresses a need for clinicians, many of whom are beginners, non-psychiatrists, or psychiatrists entering unfamiliar territory, to come up to speed rapidly in providing more than perfunctory service to needy populations. This challenge grows ever greater.