"This leading textbook provides an accurate and comprehensive account of current knowledge, through the integration of empirical findings with clinical experience and practice, and is essential reading for professionals working in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and clinicians working in general practice and community pediatric settings." (Forbes.com, 2 November 2010)

Reviews of previous editions:

 

“the ultimate child and adolescent psychiatry textbook and a must have for any district hospital or postgraduate library”Archives of Disease in Childhood

 

"...this superb book which will certainly be the standard reference for the speciality for years to come." British Journal of Psychiatry

 

"The editors and the authors are to be congratulated for providing us with such a high standard for a textbook on modern child psychiatry. I strongly recommend this book to every child psychiatrist who wants a reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive, informative and very useful textbook. To my mind this is the best book of its kind available today." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

 

"It is impossible to find fault with it. I am certain that it will become a mandatory acquisition for any serious student of developmental psychopathology and child and adolescent psychiatry. I highly recommend this book..." JAMA

 

"This book is undoubtedly the most authoritative textbook in the world on the subject.” Professor Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry

 

"This book is by far the best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to date." Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH