Child Psychiatry. A Developmental Approach

Developmental aphasia observed in a department of child psychiatry.

Recent experience in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, has shown that educational difficulties due to developmental aphasia were contributory aetiological factors in a wide variety of behaviour disorders. In the majority of patients the nature of the educational difficulties had not been recognized in time for them to obtain the maximum benef...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry : Psychopathology Viewed Through the Developmental Lens

What is Child and Adolescent Psychiatry? Child and adolescent psychiatry is one of the newer medical subspecialties which studies, diagnoses and treats psychopathology in infants, children and adolescents. As adult psychiatry has matured into a fully recognized medical speciality, it has become increasingly clear that many, if not most, psychiatric syndromes and disorders manifest themselves mu...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...