"Clinical Child Psychiatry" refers to the mental disorders of childhood and adolescence as well as the psychosocial problems and unique situations that infants, children, and adolescents often face. Through the pages of the book, the specific characteristics of the processes occurring in the developmental trajectory of the human being are highlighted, with particular attention given to the clinical expression of problematic or pathological versions and their outcomes.

At the same time, the interdependence and interaction of biological, psychological, familial, and social factors in the manifestation of each disorder are emphasized. At the end of each chapter, the main points are presented, providing a summary and a general overview, as well as a small text with the clinical perspective, reflecting the author's personal stance and clinical experience.

It contains everything she wishes to convey beyond knowledge, as well as those elements that structure the approach and attitude of the mental health professional towards the suffering child and their family.

The author, with long-standing clinical and teaching practice, shares her rich experience in this personal book, advocating that knowledge, no matter how objective, cannot be separated from the ethical and deontological dimensions that accompany it.

Helen Lazaratou is a Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She graduated from the Medical School of the University of Athens. She specialized in Psychiatry and subsequently in Child Psychiatry in France (University Paris XIII). In France, where she stayed for nine years, she held responsible positions as a resident at the Alfred Binet Child Psychiatry Center and as an assistant professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris VI.

She is responsible for the Child and Adolescent Service of the Community Mental Health Center of Vyronas - Kaisariani, which belongs to the Aiginition Hospital, at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Athens. She is a member of the board of the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Contents

Part A: Introduction to Child Psychiatry

1. The subject and history of Child Psychiatry

2. Child psychiatric assessment

3. Play and drawing as diagnostic tools

4. Classification in Child Psychiatry

5. Typical development

Part B: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

6. Speech and communication disorders

7. Motor coordination disorder

8. Autism spectrum disorders

9. Specific learning disorders in reading and mathematics

10. Written language and its disorders

11. Intellectual disability

12. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

13. Tics

Part C: Disorders with Somatic Expression

14. Psychosomatic disorders

15. Feeding and eating disorders

16. Sleep disorders

Part D: Child Psychiatric Morbidity

17. Anxiety disorders

18. Post-traumatic stress disorder

19. Selective mutism

20. Phobias

21. Depression

22. Suicidal behavior in children and adolescents

23. Bipolar disorder

24. Childhood psychoses – Childhood schizophrenia

25. Obsessive-compulsive disorder

26. Personality disorders

27. Childhood sexuality and gender identity

28. Elimination disorders

29. Conduct disorder

Part E: Psychosocial Problems

30. Abuse - Neglect

31. Bullying

32. The child facing illness and hospitalization

33. The child and death

Part F: Children in Special Circumstances

34. Divorce in the child's life

35. The migrant child

36. The adopted child

37. Children from assisted reproduction

38. New family forms – Families of same-sex parents

Part G: Infant Psychiatry

39. Psychiatry focused on infants

40. The early abilities of infants

41. The interactive relationship

42. Clinical psychopathological patterns

43. Mentally ill mothers and infants

44. The encounter of the clinician with the infant and the parents

Part H: Adolescent Psychiatry

45. The diagnostic assessment of the adolescent

46. Special symptoms of adolescence

47. Psychoses in adolescence

48. Self-harm in adolescence

49. Substance use in adolescence

Part I: Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions

50. Child psychiatric care in the community and in the hospital

51. Pharmacotherapy

52. Psychotherapies

53. Prevention in the mental health of children and adolescents