Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Part I: Conceptual Approaches
1 Developments in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Over the Last 50 Years
2 Classification
3 Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Conceptual Issues
4 Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Formulation
5 Using Epidemiological and Longitudinal Approaches to Study Causal Hypotheses
6 Using Epidemiology to Plan Services: A Conceptual Approach
7 Children's Testimony
8 Legal Issues in the Care and Treatment of Children with Mental Health Problems
9 What Clinicians Need to Know about Statistical Issues and Methods
10 Health Economics
11 What Can We Learn from Structural and Functional Brain Imaging?
12 Neurobiological Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology
13 Development and Psychopathology: A Life Course Perspective
14 Temperament and Personality
15 Sociocultural/Ethnic Groups and Psychopathology
16 Basic Neuropsychopharmacology
17 Clinical Neurophysiology
18 Psychological Treatments: Overview and Critical Issues for the Field
Part II: Clinical Assessment
19 Use of Structured Interviews and Observational Methods in Clinical Settings
20 Using Rating Scales in a Clinical Context
21 Psychological Assessment in the Clinical Context
22 Physical Examination and Medical Investigation
Part III: Influences on Psychopathology
23 Genetics
24 Behavioral Phenotypes and Chromosomal Disorders
25 Psychosocial Adversity and Resilience
26 Acute Life Stresses
27 Impact of Parental Psychiatric Disorder and Physical Illness
28 Child Maltreatment
29 Child Sexual Abuse
30 Brain Disorders and their Effect on Psychopathology
31 Psychopathology in Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children
32 Residential and Foster Family Care
33 Adoption
Part IV: Clinical Syndromes
34 Disorders of Attention and Activity
35 Conduct Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
36 Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder
37 Depressive Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
38 Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
39 Anxiety Disorders
40 Suicidal Behavior

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

"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." (Forbes.com, 2 November 2010) 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

"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." (Forbes.com, 2 November 2010)
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