- Paperback - Number of Pages: 288 pages
- Dimensions: 154 x 236 x 20mm - 419.99g
- Publication date: 13 May 2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language: English
It is about time that a book focuses entirely on child and adolescent psychiatry. Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry analyzes, critiques, and offers alternative perspectives on a range of topics including concepts of childhood mental disease, diagnosis and over-diagnosis, the use of neuroimaging of children, and issues of comorbidity, all informed by intersections of philosophy and psychiatry. Readers will also find clear critiques of particular diagnoses such as conduct disorder, pediatric bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD. The editors are to be commended for putting such a fine volume together. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in better understanding childhood behavior, and distress and the values that inform our judgments: child psychiatrists, philosophers, social workers, psychologists, and sociologists. Nancy Nyquist Potter, PhD