Child Psychiatry - Illustrated Guide for Doctors and Students

Child Psychiatry: Illustrated Guide for Doctors and Students puts every disorder in child and adolescent psychiatry on a single page: the criteria, the clinical picture, how to tell it apart from what it gets confused with, and the treatment, drawn out instead of written as pages of running text.

It opens with the groundwork: the psychiatric assessment in children, how the DSM-5 groups the disorders, the principles of pediatric psychopharmacology, and the evidence-based psychotherapies used in childhood.

Then neurodevelopment (ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, learning disorders), disruptive disorders with the boundary between a normal tantrum, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder made visible instead of memorized, and mood disorders including childhood depression, pediatric bipolar disorder and a full page on suicide and self-harm risk assessment.

Anxiety gets the most space: separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, phobia, social anxiety, panic disorder, selective mutism and OCD. Trauma and stress covers PTSD in childhood, attachment disorders and maltreatment. Feeding and elimination covers anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, ARFID, enuresis and encopresis.

It closes with sleep disorders, tics and Tourette, early-onset psychosis, trichotillomania, substance use, school refusal, bullying and grief in childhood.

Every page follows the same structure: clinical illustrations, color-coded boxes for criteria, differentiation and treatment, and one highlighted line stating what the page actually tests.

This is a reference guide for the moment before an exam or a rotation, built for medical students, residents in psychiatry or pediatrics, and anyone who needs child psychiatry to hold together as one picture instead of forty disconnected facts.

44 pages, high-resolution digital PDF, landscape format, delivered by email right after purchase.