
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
by Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine, Samuele Cortese, Cathy Creswell, Tamsin J. Ford, James F. Leckman, Argyris Stringaris
7th Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781119906063 |
| eText ISBN | 9781119905967 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2025 |
| Edition | 7th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 1120 |
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, 7th Edition, is a reference textbook designed to support learning and clinical decision-making in youth mental health care. Written for paediatric clinicians, primary care providers, and developmental psychopathology specialists, the text provides foundational guidance for diagnostic formulations, structured clinical assessments, and diagnostic classifications.
Textual coverage encompasses core thematic topics such as neurodevelopmental disorders, emotional regulation, body dysmorphic disorder, and human diversity involving gender identity and sexual orientation. Clinical management sections outline established intervention approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, parenting programs, systemic family interventions, and relationship-based treatment models.
To address contemporary practice demands, the work details digital technology applications in assessment and intervention alongside specialized chapters on global threats like COVID-19, war, and natural disasters. These sections offer useful context for practitioners navigating evolving clinical scenarios across diverse care environments.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Development and psychopathology: a life course perspective
Chapter 2: Diagnosis, diagnostic formulation, and classification
Chapter 3: Neurodevelopmental disorders
Chapter 4: Conceptual issues and empirical challenges in relation to disruptive and challenging behavior
Chapter 5: Emotion, emotion regulation and disorder: conceptual issues for clinicians and neuroscientists
Chapter 6: Attachment: normal development, individual differences, and associations with experience
Chapter 7: Infant and early childhood mental health
Chapter 8: Temperament mechanisms in developmental psychopathology
Chapter 9: Transdiagnostic perspectives
Chapter 10: Neurobiological perspectives on the developing human brain
Chapter 11: Neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry: the key elements
Chapter 12: Systems neuroscience
Chapter 13: Identifying causal effects using natural experiments and other designs
Chapter 14: The role of epidemiology and youth voice in planning, organizing, and improving mental health services
Chapter 15: Establishing the clinical effectiveness of interventions and implementations
Chapter 16: What clinicians need to know about statistical methods
Chapter 17: How can economics help decision-makers to improve child and adolescent mental health equitably and efficiently?
Chapter 18: Public health challenges in child and adolescent mental health: dealing with global and local threats
Chapter 19: Legal issues in the care and treatment of children with mental health problems
Chapter 20: Biological mechanisms linking childhood adversity to mental health problems
Chapter 21: Genetics
Chapter 22: Psychosocial adversity
Chapter 23: Resilience: a multilevel developmental psychopathology perspective
Chapter 24: Impact of parental psychiatric disorder on children’s psychological outcomes
Chapter 25: Child abuse and neglect
Chapter 26: Neurological disorders and psychopathology
Chapter 27: Clinical assessment and formulation
Chapter 28: Use of structured interviews, rating scales, and observational methods in clinical settings
Chapter 29: Psychological assessment in the clinical context
Chapter 30: Physical examination and medical investigation
Chapter 31: Psychological interventions: overview and critical issues for the field
Chapter 32: Prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and promotion of well-being
Chapter 33: Parenting programs
Chapter 34: Cognitive and behavioral therapies for children and young people
Chapter 35: Systemic family therapy
Chapter 36: Relationship-based treatments
Chapter 37: Educational interventions for children’s learning difficulties
Chapter 38: School-based mental health interventions
Chapter 39: Pharmacological treatments, dietary-based interventions, and neuromodulation therapies
Chapter 40: Diversity: gender identity and sexual orientation
Chapter 41: Refugee, asylum-seeking, and internally displaced children
Chapter 42: Residential care, foster care, and adoption
Chapter 43: Pediatric consultation and psychiatric aspects of somatic disease
Chapter 44: Children with specific sensory impairments
Chapter 45: Child and youth mental health services in community health care settings
Chapter 46: Working in low-resource settings
Chapter 47: Forensic child and adolescent psychiatry
Chapter 48: Intensive community services, day units, and inpatient services
Chapter 49: Digital technology: assessment and treatment
Chapter 50: Autism
Chapter 51: Developmental language disorders
Chapter 52: Specific learning disorders
Chapter 53: Intellectual disability
Chapter 54: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Chapter 55: Tic disorders
Chapter 56: Schizophrenia and psychosis
Chapter 57: Disorders of attachment and social engagement related to deprivation
Chapter 58: Post-traumatic stress disorder
Chapter 59: Anxiety disorders
Chapter 60: Obsessive– compulsive disorder
Chapter 61: Body dysmorphic disorder
Chapter 62: Bipolar disorder in childhood and adolescence
Chapter 63: Depressive disorders in children and adolescents
Chapter 64: Self-harm in young people
Chapter 65: Oppositional defiant and conduct disorders
Chapter 66: Substance use and substance use disorder
Chapter 67: Personality disorders
Chapter 68: Sleep and sleep disorders in children and adolescents
Chapter 69: Feeding and eating disorders
Chapter 70: Somatic symptom and related disorders
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