Managing Children with Psychiatric Problems

Children with problems of behaviour and emotions are the bread and butter of paediatric practice and are common in general practice, making up over a third of all consultations. General practitioners get little training in how to manage such children and their families, and paediatric training is patchy. Managing Children with Psychiatric Problems is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the main treatments used by child and adolescent psychiatry departments that is designed to help general practitioners, paediatricians, and social workers find a way of dealing more effectively with troubled or troubling children and …