Kaplan & Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2nd Edition

Kaplan & Sadock’s Concise Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a clinically oriented, quick-reference resource that delivers current, practical information for clinicians, residents, fellows, students, and all professionals involved in child and adolescent mental health care. Edited by Caroly Pataki, Robert Boland, and Marcia L. Verduin, and adapted from Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, this streamlined volume provides practical, stepwise guidance on clinical assessment, psychiatric documentation, medical evaluation of psychiatric patients, laboratory investigations, symptom recognition, and contemporary treatment approaches.

The text offers clinically meaningful coverage of both normal and abnormal development, psychiatric examination techniques, neuroimaging, learning and communication disorders, behavioral conditions, substance use in adolescents, forensic considerations, and a wide range of psychiatric illnesses including mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder.

This edition incorporates numerous updated and newly introduced topics, including discussions on racism and diversity, LGBTQ-related mental health issues, internet gaming, and the psychological effects of social media on young people. It also reviews a broad spectrum of psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions, while thoughtfully addressing ongoing debates surrounding medication use in pediatric populations.

Realistic clinical case examples, concise high-yield tables, and a distinctive glossary of psychiatric signs and symptoms enhance the book’s practical value. Altogether, it functions as both an effective review source for certification and recertification and a dependable everyday reference for fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry, psychiatric residents, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, and social workers.