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Key Words: Book Review Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Children Adolenscent Book Review Psychotherapy Supervision The Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is an update of an earlier edition based on a DSM-IV format. This text is also designed to incorporate recent research in neurobiology and neuropharmacology. The need for updates is driven by the population explosion of clinical neuroscientists in child psychiatry. Since Dr. Wiener vows to preserve and reformulate psychodynamic origins, each chapter blends the knowledge of experienced clinicians with those of younger researchers. This approach accommodates the ongoing dialectic process in child psychiatry. This second edition brings these often divergent views into a single formulation. Thus, each chapter is a microcosm of the ongoing processes in the development of child psychiatry for the twenty-first century. The textbook is divided into 11 sections. The first addresses the historical roots of our specialty against the backdrop of social and cultural change. There is an interesting section on the emergence of diagnostic classifications within historical context. This series of diagnostic nomenclatures has provided a glimpse in the history of ideas, ranging from earlier psychodynamic formulations to current phenomenology. Our newer classification schemes limitPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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