Handbook of Child and Adolescent Outpatient, Day Treatment A

Rich in diversity and scope, the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Outpatient, Day Treatment and Community Psychiatry provides comprehensive and up-to-date information through clinical case illustrations and explains various therapuetic strategies in a detailed fashion. The contributors to this handbook help clinicians learn and practice child and adolescent psychiatry in a clinically sound manner in the present and immediate future health care environment. These contributors are experts from the psychiatric, psychology, social work, education, and nursing fields. The handbook focuses on administrative, staffing, collaborative, training, legal, and assessment aspects of ambulatory child and adolescent psychiatry. In addition, an extensive discussion of common childhood and adolescent disorders and treatment is also included. Some of the disorders included are Affective Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Tics and Tourette's Disorders, Separation Anxiety Disorders, and Attention Deficit/Hyperacitivity Disorder. Day Treatments including partial hospitalization, special education day school as well as school-based and home based interventions are also reviewed. Other types of treatment include pharmacotherapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, individual psychotherapy, and the use of play with children. Overall, this handbook provides a guide for the more experienced practitioners of child and adolescent mental health and to child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, social work, and nursing trainees, current knowledge and practical examples of the delivery of contemporary ambulatory psychiatric care for children, adolescents and their families. Book jacket.