Book description
Making a psychiatric diagnosis in children can be challenging: some
clinicians say the incidence of some childhood disorders, such as
bipolar disorder and ADHD, is over-diagnosed while others say they are
undiagnosed, undertreated, and are a large burden on society. The drug
treatment of child psychiatric disorders can also be controversial in
children and adolescents.
Clinical Child Psychiatry
fills the need for an objective, clinically relevant source to dispel
this confusion. William M. Klykylo, M. D. is Professor and Director of
the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Boonshoft School
of Medicine of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He attended the
University of Michigan Medical School and trained in General and Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. He served at
the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and as a residency
training director at Cincinnati and Wright State for twenty-seven years.
His academic interests include developmental disabilities, pervasive
developmental disorders, medical education, ethics, and health care
delivery systems.
Dr. Kay is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and
has served as the chair of the APA Committee on Medical Student
Education, the Council on Medical Education and Career Development,
the Vestermark Award Board, and the Committee on the Practice of
Psychotherapy. He chairs the World Psychiatric Association Task Force
on Undergraduate and Post Graduate Curriculum as well as the APA
Committee on College Mental Health. Dr. Kay is the immediate past
chair of the Psychiatry Residency Review Committee of the ACGME and
the Founding Editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and
Research and Associate Editor of the American Journal of
Psychotherapy. He has published extensively on the topics of
medical and psychiatric education, medical ethics, child psychiatry,
psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, the neurobiology of psychotherapy, and
psychosocial aspects of AIDS and of cardiac transplantation. Dr. Kay
serves as the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience
Center at Wright State University. He received the 2001 APA Seymour
Vestermark Award for contributions to psychiatric education.
