Cathryn A. Galanter, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the State University of New York Downstate and New York City Health + Hospitals/Kings County in Brooklyn, New York.
Peter S. Jensen, M.D., is Board Chair and Founder of The REACH Institute in New York, New York, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Preface
Introduction: Our Conceptualization of the Cases
Acknowledgments
PART I
Classic Cases
Introduction to Classic Cases
Chapter 1. Trouble Paying Attention: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 2. Trouble With Transitions: Does My Child Have Autism?
Chapter 3. Living in Her Parents Shadow: Separation Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 4. Chatterbox at Home: Selective Mutism
Chapter 5. Everything Bothers Her: Major Depressive Disorder
Chapter 6. Excessively Silly: Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 7. Life of the Party: Chronic Marijuana Use
Chapter 8. Jerking Movements: An Adolescent With Psychosis
Chapter 9. She Just Wont Eat a Thing: Anorexia Nervosa
Chapter 10. I Just Cant Stop: Tourettes Disorder
Chapter 11. Hes Always Exhausted: Disordered Sleep in an Adolescent
PART II
Comorbid Complexity
Chapter 12. Stealing the Car: Disruptive Behavior in an Adolescent
Chapter 13. Zero Tolerance: Threats to Harm a Teacher in Elementary School
Chapter 14. Anxious Adolescent in the Emergency Room: Misuse of Prescription Medications
Chapter 15. The Worried Child: A Child With Multiple Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 16. Affective Storms: A Careful Assessment of Rage Attacks
Chapter 17. Struggling in School: Language and Reading Difficulties
Chapter 18. Abdominal Pain in a Child With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
PART III
Toughest Cases
Chapter 19. Frequent Tantrums: Oppositional Behavior in a Young Child
Chapter 20. Toddler With Temper Tantrums: A Careful Assessment of a Dysregulated Preschool Child
Chapter 21. Wont Leave His Room: Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis
Chapter 22. Cutting Helps Me Feel Better: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Chapter 23. From Foster Care to the State Hospital: Psychotic Symptoms in a Child Who Is Victiim of Neglect
PART IV
Kids in Crisis
Chapter 24. Suicidal Ideation After Supervised Visits With Biological Mom: Depressed Mood in a Child in Foster Care
Chapter 25. The Legacy of War: Irritability and Anger in an Adolescent Refugee
Chapter 26. Moody Child: Depression in the Context of Parental Divorce
Chapter 27. Without My Mom, Im Not Me: Childhood Bereavement
Chapter 28. Never Met a Stranger: Disinhibited Attachment in a Toddler
PART V
Decision Making
Chapter 29. Diagnostic Decision Making
Chapter 30. Research and Clinical Perspectives on Diagnostic and Treatment Decision Making: Whence the Future?
Subject Index
Index of Cases by Diagnosis
