Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is designed to keep busy clinicians up to date with the most recent developments in treating childhood psychiatric disorders.

Features:

• Provides a thorough grounding on the neurobiology of childhood psychiatric disorders and an overview of the pharmacology of current psychotropic compounds used in treating paediatric patients
• Focuses on optimal drug treatment for individual conditions, including mood/anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, personality disorder, eating disorders, and psychosis/schizophrenia

Contents

1. Pharmacology of the psychotropic compounds
2. Anxiety disorders
3. Mood Disorders
4. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
5. Tics and Tourette's syndrome
6. Psychotic disorders and schizophrenia
7. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
8. Conduct disorders
9. Eating disorders
10. Pervasive developmental disorders (autism, etc.)
11. Psychiatric disorders in mental deficiency
12. Borderline personality disorder
13. Sleep disorders

Index

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