Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review

This new, thoroughly revised fifth edition of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Specialty Board Review offers a comprehensive study guide of child psychiatry.New authors incorporate the latest evidence-based content while still offering the questions and detailed answers format of previous editions. Part I includes chapters covering normal development, diagnostic categories, treatments, and special issues. Part II includes new case-based questions that test knowledge of assessment and treatment planning. This book includes hundreds of multiple-choice questions, modelled on board examination questions, and includes references from leading textbooks, providing a comprehensive review of the field.Both general and child/adolescent psychiatrists will find this fifth edition essential, not only as a guide for preparing for their first successful board examination, but also as a review in preparing for important re-certification exams.

Caitlin R. Costello, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She is the training director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program and the medical director of child and adolescent outpatient services at Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics. Her interests include medical education, curriculum development, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders, the interface between psychiatry and the legal system, and juvenile justice. Lauren T. Schumacher, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. She specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry with a particular interest in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anxiety disorders. She has presented at national conferences and is the author of multiple book chapters on pharmacological treatment of ADHD. She is also active in child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship training and medical student education.