Contents:

L3 Learning Disabilities 410

Contributing Authors xv FOUNDATIONS

A Historical John Hamilton

L3 Ethics 17 Robert Leeme

A Role for Child Psychiatry Eric Fombonne

Funding Care 48 2 3 GENETICS

The Hearing or Visually Impaired Psychiatric Disorders

Sexual Minority Youth 79 2 4 NEUROSCIENCES

JeffQ Bostic and Robert A King Causes and Management

SPECIFIC DISORDERS AND SYNDROMES 5 6 Tic Disorders

L1 Autism and the Pervasive Developmental

L1 Clinical and Developmental Aspects

INTEREACE AREAS

L3 Mental Health Issues in the Medically III Child

L3 2 The Role of the Child and Adolescent

L3 3 Psychosocial Aspects

L1 The Infant and Toddler 252 5 2 ATTENTION AND DISRUPTIVE DISORDERS

L3 Development of SchoolAge Children 267 Soutnllo

An Integrative

CLASSIFICATION AND DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT 5 3 Childhood Onset Schizophrenia and Other EarlyOnset Psychotic Disorders 493

L3 4 Epilepsy

Sarghi Sharnu and Christopher R Thomas Index

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