Rutter / Bishop / Pine Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

5. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0090-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1248 Seiten, E-Book

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become anestablished and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Nowcompletely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides acoherent appraisal of the current state of the field to helptrainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It isdistinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, inits integration of science and clinical practice, and in itspractical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need tothink about conflicting or uncertain findings.
This new edition now offers an entirely new section onconceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including:
* neurochemistry and basic pharmacology
* brain imaging
* health economics
* psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers
* bipolar disorder
* attachment disorders
* statistical methods for clinicians
This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensiveaccount of current knowledge, through the integration of empiricalfindings with clinical experience and practice, and is essentialreading for professionals working in the field of child andadolescent mental health, and clinicians working in generalpractice and community pediatric settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rutter, Michael

Bishop, Dorothy

Pine, Daniel

Scott, Stephen

Stevenson, Jim S.

Taylor, Eric A.

Thapar, Anita

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Sir Michael Rutter graduated from BirminghamUniversity Medical School in 1955. After postgraduate posts inneurology, paediatrics and cardiology, he undertook training inpsychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, qualifying withdistinction in 1961 before going to spend a year on a researchfellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Onhis return he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) SocialPsychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as Senior Lecturer atthe Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966, subsequently readerand then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Head of theDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC ChildPsychiatry Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also HonoraryDirector of the Social, Genetic and Developmental PsychiatryResearch Centre, both of which he set up at the Institute ofPsychiatry. Since 1998 he has held the position of Professor ofDevelopmental Psychopathology. He has published some 38 books andover 400 scientific papers and chapters.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in1992, and was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea andthe Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the USInstitute of Medicine, and is currently president of the Societyfor Research into Child Development. He won the Helmut HortenFoundation prize in 1997, the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, andthe Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from theUniversities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago,Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia.
Dorothy Bishop
Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, OxfordUniversity, Oxford, England
Daniel Pine
NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA
Steven Scott
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute ofPsychiatry, King's College, London, England
Jim S Stevenson
Associate Dean, Department of Psychology, University ofSouthampton, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences andSchool of Psychology, Southampton, England
Eric Taylor
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MRC Social Geneticand Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, England
Anita Thapar
Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff UniversitySchool of Medicine, Cardiff, UK