Book description
This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment of
behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert author
team, combining one (JW) with higher qualifications in general practice,
child neuropsychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, with one
(PH) with higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and
adolescent psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of
multidisciplinary case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in
the Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London, and in
private practice.
The book is ideal for the busy mental health professional working in
a small team. Organised to allow rapid look-up of behaviours with
comprehensive lists of their possible causes, it synthesizes research
evidence and clinical experience. The authors interpret
behaviour broadly, including not just voluntary actions, but
also actions whose voluntary nature is questionable (such as drop
attacks, personal preferences, and pseudobehaviours). They also
include problems that lead to referral through their behavioural
manifestations (e. g. aggression, anxiety, or a poor relationship with
mother). Overall, the book spans the behavioural, cognitive, social
and emotional problems of children and adolescents.
With the child and family in the room, and with detailed school
reports and psychometric results available, it is usually possible to
identify causes of symptoms that are specific to the child and his
environment, and which can guide behavioural, cognitive, social, and
family interventions.
Purchasers of the book will also be entitled to a Wiley Desktop
Edition-an interactive digital version featuring downloadable text and
images, highlighting and note taking facilities, in-text searching,
and linking to references and glossary terms.
Dr Jonathan Williams is a Consultant Child & Adolescent
Psychiatrist and Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College, London. He is also an Honorary Consultant
at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.
Professor Peter D. Hill is a Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist. He is also Honorary Consultant at Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Children, and Visiting Professor at St George's Hospital
Medical School, London. He is Consultant Medical Advisor at
Huntercombe Manor Hospitals and Visiting Consultant at the Moor House
School for Children with Specific Speech and Language Disorders and
Visiting Consultant for the Brain Injury Unit at The Children's Trust,
Tadworth Court.
