Section I. Psychiatric principles and practice -- section II. Psychiatric disorders in adults -- section III. Psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents -- section IV. Psychiatry in special settings.

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Print version c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical decision making in psychiatry ; Psychiatric epidemiology ; Psychiatric genetics ; The psychiatric interview ; Diagnostic encounter for children and adolescents ; Psychological and neuropsychological assessment ; Diagnostic evaluation for children and adolescents ; Developmental psychology ; Psychopharmacologic interventions ; Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral interventions ; Psychodynamic and social interventions ; Diagnostic formulation, treatment planning, and modes of treatment in children and adolescents ; Preventive psychiatry ; Delirium, dementia, and amnestic syndromes ; Substance-related disorders ; Schizophrenia ; Other psychotic disorders ; Mood disorders ; Anxiety disorders ; Posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder ; Obsessive-compulsive disorder ; Somatoform disorders.Mood disorders ; Factitious disorders and malingering ; Dissociative disorders ; Sexual dysfunction and paraphilias ; Eating disorders ; Sleep disorders ; Impulse-control disorders ; Adjustment disorders ; Personality disorders ; Intellectual disability ; Learning disorders ; Motor skills disorder and communication disorders ; Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders ; Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ; Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder ; Substance-related disorders in adolescents ; Depressive disorders (in childhood and adolescence) ; Bipolar disorder ; Suicidal behavior in children and adolescents ; Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents ; Child maltreatment ; Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents following a single-event trauma ; Tourette disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents ; Developmental disorders of attachment, feeding, elimination, and sleeping ; Gender identity disorder ; Psychological reactions to acute and chronic systemic illness in pediatric patients ; Emergency psychiatry ; Consultation-liaison psychiatry ; Forensic psychiatry.

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