Michael Rutter & Dorothy Bishop 
Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [PDF ebook] 

Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has become an
established and accepted textbook of child psychiatry. Now
completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a
coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help
trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is
distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in
its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its
practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to
think about conflicting or uncertain findings.

This new edition now offers an entirely new section on
conceptual approaches, and several new chapters, including:

* neurochemistry and basic pharmacology

* brain imaging

* health economics

* psychopathology in refugees and asylum seekers

* bipolar disorder

* attachment disorders

* statistical methods for clinicians

This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive
account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical
findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential
reading for professionals working in the field of child and
adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general
practice and community pediatric settings.

A propos de l’auteur

Professor Sir Michael Rutter graduated from Birmingham
University Medical School in 1955. After postgraduate posts in
neurology, paediatrics and cardiology, he undertook training in
psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, qualifying with
distinction in 1961 before going to spend a year on a research
fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. On
his return he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social
Psychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as Senior Lecturer at
the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966, subsequently reader
and then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Head of the
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC Child
Psychiatry Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also Honorary
Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry
Research Centre, both of which he set up at the Institute of
Psychiatry. Since 1998 he has held the position of Professor of
Developmental Psychopathology. He has published some 38 books and
over 400 scientific papers and chapters.

He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in
1992, and was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea and
the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the US
Institute of Medicine, and is currently president of the Society
for Research into Child Development. He won the Helmut Horten
Foundation prize in 1997, the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, and
the Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from the
Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago,
Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia.

Dorothy Bishop

Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford
University, Oxford, England

Daniel Pine

NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA

Steven Scott

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of
Psychiatry, King’s College, London, England

Jim S Stevenson

Associate Dean, Department of Psychology, University of
Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and
School of Psychology, Southampton, England

Eric Taylor

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MRC Social Genetic
and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, England

Anita Thapar

Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University
School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK