Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fifth Edition Edited by: Michael Rutter CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FRS, FMedSci, FBA Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, MRC, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK Dorothy Bishop MA, DPhil, FBA, FMedSci Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Daniel Pine MD National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Stephen Scott FRCP FRCPsych Professor of Child Health and Behaviour, & Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK Jim Stevenson BA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Eric Taylor MA, MB, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK Anita Thapar MBBCH, FRCPsych, PhD Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Fifth Edition has become an established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry.Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings. This new edition now offers an entirely new section on conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including: * neurochemistry and basic pharmacology * brain imaging * health economics * psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers * bipolar disorder * attachment disorders * statistical methods for clinicians. This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings.Reviews of previous editions: "the ultimate child and adolescent psychiatry textbook and a must have for any district hospital or postgraduate library"Archives of Disease in Childhood "...this superb book which will certainly be the standard reference for the speciality for years to come. " British Journal of Psychiatry "The editors and the authors are to be congratulated for providing us with such a high standard for a textbook on modern child psychiatry. I strongly recommend this book to every child psychiatrist who wants a reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive, informative and very useful textbook. To my mind this is the best book of its kind available today." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry "It is impossible to find fault with it. I am certain that it will become a mandatory acquisition for any serious student of developmental psychopathology and child and adolescent psychiatry. I highly recommend this book..." JAMA "This book is undoubtedly the most authoritative textbook in the world on the subject." Professor Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry "This book is by far the best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to date." Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH

Author Biography

Professor Sir Michael Rutter graduated from Birmingham University Medical School in 1955. After postgraduate posts in neurology, paediatrics and cardiology, he undertook training in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, qualifying with distinction in 1961 before going to spend a year on a research fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. On his return he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social Psychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966, subsequently reader and then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC Child Psychiatry Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also Honorary Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, both of which he set up at the Institute of Psychiatry. Since 1998 he has held the position of Professor of Developmental Psychopathology. He has published some 38 books and over 400 scientific papers and chapters. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in 1992, and was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the US Institute of Medicine, and is currently president of the Society for Research into Child Development. He won the Helmut Horten Foundation prize in 1997, the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, and the Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from the Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago, Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia. Dorothy Bishop Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, England Daniel Pine NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA Steven Scott Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, England Jim S Stevenson Associate Dean, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and School of Psychology, Southampton, England Eric Taylor Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, England Anita Thapar Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK