Book Review: Child Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry

Book Reviews Child Psychiatry

This book is part of the Sage Publications series on developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry. According to the series editor, the author is to present the latest theory and research on specific types of dysfunction, diagnostic and treatment approaches, and special problem areas that affect adjustment. Authors are asked to bridge potential theory, research, and clinical practice and to ...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...

Child Psychiatry

commendable feature. Unfortunately, while the author is to be congratulated that his book is not overburdened with theory, one feels that this feature is bought at the expense of superficiality in approach and explanation. It would be as well, however, to describe the book before making any further comment. The book ia large, but not uncomfortably so. There are 43 chapters, and in all over 500 ...