Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is written for all those who wonder whether the DSM-V now classifies the right people in the right way. It is aimed at patients, mental health professionals, and academics with an interest in mental health.

This must-have updated volume offers a common language for clinicians involved in the diagnosis and study of mental disorders and facilitates an objective assessment of symptom presentations across a variety of clinical settings-inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care.

This must-have updated volume offers a common language for clinicians involved in the diagnosis and study of mental disorders and facilitates an objective assessment of symptom presentations across a variety of clinical settings-inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private practice, and primary care.

Explaining why certain children are gifted and how giftedness is manifested, each chapter addresses the relevance for children with AD/HD and Asperger Syndrome. Lovecky guides parents and professionals through methods of diagnosis and advises on how best to nurture individual needs, positive behaviour and relationships at home and at school.

A guide to understanding and treating children and adolescents for whom extreme levels of angry outbursts ('irritability') are a problem needing professional attention.

Freud's ingenious structure of the couch and chair was considered to be the only suitable format for more than one hundred years. This book takes into account the changes that have taken place in our daily lives, as the result of the resounding technological changes that have influenced our means of communication.

Freud's ingenious structure of the couch and chair was considered to be the only suitable format for more than one hundred years. This book takes into account the changes that have taken place in our daily lives, as the result of the resounding technological changes that have influenced our means of communication.

DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health is a rich repository of clinical wisdom that both seasoned practitioners and child and adolescent psychiatrists studying for their board exams will find extremely useful.

Designed for interviewers at all levels of experience and in a variety of specialties, The DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health helps clinicians use DSM-5 in diagnostic interviews and initial treatment planning for children and adolescents.