Product Description: Revision of: Drug therapy and childhood and adolescent disorders. 2004.

Product Description: Need to know more about a specific condition? These introductory volumes provide readable overviews of brain chemistry and function, the history of psychiatric drug treatment, possible adverse reactions, and alternative therapies This eighteen volume series will make psychiatric disorders and their treatments understandable to parents, teachers, and young people alike...read more

Discusses possible causes, symptoms, and remedies of several types of mental illness that affect children and adolescents including autism, depression, schizophrenia, and anorexia nervosa. Also considers a variety of emotional problems that cause withdrawal, fear of school, enuresis, and social manipulation.A study of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of unusual behavior and potential emotional illnesses dicusses such disorders as autism, depression, schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa, and other eating and mental ailments