DSM-IV-TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health

Imbued with a shared passion for children s mental health, the DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health reflects its editors and contributors conviction that through the meticulous presentation and careful study of cases, diagnosis and treatment can be vastly improved. The book is designed to be both an indispensable reference and a teaching tool for trainees, trainers, and clinicians of child and adolescent psychiatry, including social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurse clinicians. The heart of the book is its cases, which are organized into four parts by increasing complexity. Each case is accompanied by three expert commentaries, simulating the experience of meeting with a panel of supervisors or depending on the reader s training level consultants who are among the best in the field. At a time when twenty percent of children and adolescents in the United States have diagnosable mental health problems, yet 75 to 80 percent of those so afflicted do not receive appropriate psychiatric care, the DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health constitutes a necessary and long overdue resource.