Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the leading textbook in its field.

Both interdisciplinary and international, it provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help researchers, trainees and practicing clinicians in their daily work. Integrating science and clinical practice, it is a comprehensive reference for all aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry.

New to this full color edition are expanded coverage on classification, including the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new chapters on systems neuroscience, relationship-based treatments, resilience, global psychiatry, and infant mental health.

From an international team of expert editors and contributors, this sixth edition is essential reading for all professionals working and learning in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology as well as for clinicians working in primary care and pediatric settings.

Michael Rutter has contributed a number of new chapters and a Foreword for this edition: "I greatly welcome this new edition as providing both a continuity with the past and a substantial new look." -Professor Sir Michael Rutter, extract from Foreword.

Reviews of previous editions:

"This book is by far the best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to date." -Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH

"The editors and the authors are to be congratulated for providing us with such a high standard for a textbook on modern child psychiatry. I strongly recommend this book to every child psychiatrist who wants a reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive, informative and very useful textbook. To my mind this is the best book of its kind available today." -Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Anita Thapar, Cardiff University, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre in Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK

Daniel S. Pine, Chief, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA

James F. Leckman, Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry; Director, Research at Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Stephen Scott, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK

Margaret J. Snowling, St John's College and University, Oxford, UK

Eric Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London institute of Psychiatry, UK

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the leading textbook in its field.

Both interdisciplinary and international, it provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help researchers, trainees and practicing clinicians in their daily work. Integrating science and clinical practice, it is a comprehensive reference for all aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry.

New to this full color edition are expanded coverage on classification, including the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new chapters on systems neuroscience, relationship-based treatments, resilience, global psychiatry, and infant mental health.

From an international team of expert editors and contributors, this sixth edition is essential reading for all professionals working and learning in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology as well as for clinicians working in primary care and pediatric settings.

Michael Rutter has contributed a number of new chapters and a Foreword for this edition: "I greatly welcome this new edition as providing both a continuity with the past and a substantial new look."
Professor Sir Michael Rutter, extract from Foreword.

Reviews of previous editions:

"This book is by far the best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to date."
Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH

"The editors and the authors are to be congratulated for providing us with such a high standard for a textbook on modern child psychiatry. I strongly recommend this book to every child psychiatrist who wants a reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive, informative and very useful textbook. To my mind this is the best book of its kind available today."
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

List of contributors ix

Foreword xv

Preface xvii

Part I: Conceptual issues and research approaches

A: Developmental psychopathology

1 Development and psychopathology: a life course perspective 5
Barbara Maughan and Stephan Collishaw

2 Diagnosis, diagnostic formulations, and classification 17
Michael Rutter and Daniel S. Pine

3 Neurodevelopmental disorders 31
AnitaThapar and Michael Rutter

4 Conceptual issues and empirical challenges in the disruptive behavior disorders 41
Jonathan Hill and Barbara Maughan

5 Emotion, emotion regulation and emotional disorders: conceptual issues for clinicians and neuroscientists 53
Argyris Stringaris

6 Attachment: normal development, individual differences, and associations with experience 65
Mary Dozier and Kristin Bernard

7 Infant/early years mental health 79
Tuula Tamminen and Kaija Puura

8 Temperament: individual differences in reactivity and regulation as antecedent to personality 93
Nathan A. Fox and Olga L.Walker

B: Neurobiology

9 Neurobiological perspectives on developmental psychopathology 107
Mark H. Johnson

10 Systems neuroscience 119
Daniel S. Pine

11 Neuroimaging in child psychiatry 132
Kevin Pelphrey, Brent VanderWyk and Michael Crowley

C: Epidemiology, interventions and services

12 Using natural experiments and animal models to study causal hypotheses in relation to childmental health problems 145
AnitaThapar and Michael Rutter

13 Using epidemiology to plan, organize, and evaluate services for children and adolescents with mental health problems 163
MirandaWolpert and Tamsin Ford

14 Evaluating interventions 177
Helena Chmura Kraemer

15 What clinicians need to know about statistical issues and methods 188
Andrew Pickles and Rachael Bedford

16 Global psychiatry 201
Atif Rahman and Christian Kieling

17 Prevention of mental disorders and promotion of competence 215
Mark T. Greenberg and Nathaniel R. Riggs

18 Health economics 227
Martin Knapp and Sara Evans-Lacko

19 Legal issues in the care and treatment of children with mental health problems 239
Brenda Hale and Jane Fortin

20 Children's testimony: a scientific framework for evaluating the reliability of children's statements 250
Maggie Bruck and Stephen J. Ceci

21 Residential and foster care 261
Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Stephen Scott

22 Adoption 273
Nancy J. Cohen and Fataneh Farnia

Part II: Influences on psychopathology

23 Biology of environmental effects 287
Michael Rutter and Camilla Azis-Clauson

24 Genetics 303
MatthewW. State and Anita Thapar

25 Epigenetics and the developmental origins of vulnerability for mental disorders 317
Michael J. Meaney and Kieran J. O'Donnell

26 Psychosocial adversity 330
Jennifer Jenkins, …