Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents : An Integrated Developmental Approach

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Summary: Mental health interventions in children and adolescents
Review: This is a serious book on developmental psychopathology in children and adolescents edited by a very competent person. professor Hans Steiner, who was born and educated in Vienna, Austria (it seems we have had many excellent physicians coming out of that town over the last 100 years), but received his expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his adult psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center. Today he is professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine with several important textbooks and many hundreds of published scientific articles.
This is a first edition on the developmental science and evidence based clinical practice for children and youth with mental health problems with a focus on intervention. This book has 36 chapters with 54 mainly American contributors divided into four parts: developmental science, psychopharmacology, psyvhotherapy and sociotherapy.
Each chapter in itself is an enjoyment, but it was nice to find a whole chapter on research methodology in clinical trials by Kirti Saxena and Christine Blasey, both from Stanford University.
This handbook and in fact tewxtbook is warmly recommended for students in psychopathology from the field of both child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]

Gideon Vardi, MD
Developmental pediatrician, Zusman Child Development Center, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel. E-mail: [e-mail]