New Book Available in Psychiatry Online: Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is useful to residents and faculty in a variety of specialties at UCLA including psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology and nursing. This edition provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive online text in child and adolescent psychiatry. Each chapter highlights what we know about evidence-based practices in assessment and treatment. At the end of each chapter are educational summary points. There are new chapters on bereavement and traumatic grief; ethnic, cultural, and religious issues; aggression and violence; and fundamentals of genetics relevant to child and adolescent psychiatry. This edition expands treatment coverage from 7 to 18 chapters and includes psychopharmacology, brain-based innovative treatments, and a spectrum of psychosocial approaches that focus on individual, family, therapeutic milieu, and systemic models of care. A new section on consultation provides guidance on interactions with schools, primary care practitioners, and the juvenile justice system. Psychiatry Online is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®, the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world.
If you’re off-campus connect to Psychiatry Online and then look for “Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”.
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