Complex Disorders in Pediatric Psychiatry: A Clinician’s Guide

Description

Get a quick, expert overview of complex childhood psychiatric disorders from Drs. David I. Driver and Shari Thomas of Healthy Foundations Group. This practical resource presents a summary of today’s current knowledge and best approaches to topics from gender dysphoria to childhood onset schizophrenia and other complex psychiatric disorders.

Key Features

•  Comprehensive guide for any professional working with children.
• Consolidates today’s evidence-based information on complex childhood psychiatric disorders into one convenient resource.
• Provides must-know information on evaluation and management.
• Covers a range of psychiatric disorders of children including psychosis, autoimmune encephalitides, delirium, concussions, ADHD, irritability, sleep disorders, and eating disorders.

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. Gender Dysphoria in Childhood and Adolescence
3. School Refusal
4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Anxiety
5. Tourette Syndrome
6. Management of ADHD in Youth with Comorbid Epilepsy
7. The evolution from feeding disorders to restrictive/avoidant food intake disorder
8. Eating Disorders
9. Childhood Stress and Trauma
10. Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another
11. Pediatric Sleep Disorders
12. Concussion in Children and Adolescents
13. Pediatric Delirium
14. Pediatric Catatonia
15. Pediatric Inflammatory Brain Disease
16. Disruptive Mood Regulation Disorder
17. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
18. Childhood Onset Schizophrenia

Authors Biography

David I Driver, MD, Clinical Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Child Psychiatry Branch and National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda Maryland and

Shari Thomas, MD, Attending Physician, Healthy Foundations Group, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bethesda Maryland