Preface xi

Section 1: Developing Competencies.

1a: Contextual Influences upon Social and Emotional Development.

1. Family and Systemic Influences 3
Barbara Maughan
2. Sibling Influences 8
Judy Dunn
3. Culture and Child Development 13
Ruma Bose and Sanjida Sattar
4. Neurobehavioural Development in Infancy 18
Cindy H. Liu and Ed Tronick
5. Genetic and Biological Influences 23
David Skuse

1b: General Patterns of Development.

6. Clinical Evaluation of Development fromBirth to Five Years 32
Ajay Sharma and Tony O’Sullivan
7. Early Social and Emotional Experience Matters: The First Year of Life 41
Howard Steele
8. Language Development 45
Thomas Klee and Stephanie F. Stokes
9. Development of Social Cognition 51
Virginia Slaughter
10. Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood 56
Alan Carr
11. Social-Cognitive Development During Adolescence 62
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Section 2: Promoting Well-Being.

12. Promoting Infant Mental Health 68
Christine Puckering
13. Promoting Children’sWell-Being 72
Paul Stallard
14. Fostering Resilience in Adolescents 78
Angela Veale

Section 3: Attachment and Separation

15. Attachment Theory: Research and Clinical Implications 85
Pasco Fearon
16. Children Bereaved by Parent or Sibling Death 92
Linda Dowdney
17. Adoption and Fostering 100
Jill Hodges

Section 4: The Impact of Trauma and Maltreatment.

18. Stress and Reactions to Stress in Children 107
Guinevere Tufnell
19. Child Maltreatment 114
Danya Glaser
20. The Neuroscience and Genetics of Childhood Maltreatment 121
Eamon McCrory, Stephane A. De Brito, and Essi Viding

Section 5: Atypical Development.

5a: Infancy and Early Childhood.

21. Feeding and Eating Disorders in Infancy and Childhood 128
Rachel Bryant-Waugh
22. Literacy Disorders 134
Valerie Muter and Margaret J. Snowling

5b: Middle Childhood.

23. Autism Spectrum Disorders 141
Tony Charman
24. Somatization and Somatoform Disorders 147
Elena Garralda
25. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 153
Anita Thapar and Antonio Munoz-Solomando
26. Challenges in Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 161
Elaine Chung and Isobel Heyman
27. Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents 169
Aaron Vallance and Elena Garralda
28. Childhood Behavioural Disorders 175
Graeme Lamb
29. Specific Language Impairment 180
Gina Conti-Ramsden and Kevin Durkin

5c: Adolescence.

30. Depression and Suicidal Behaviour in Children and Adolescents 187
Julia Gledhill and Matthew Hodes
31. Eating Disorders in Adolescence 194
Dasha Nicholls
32. Substance Misuse in Young People 201
K.A.H. Mirza, Roshin M. Sudesh, and Sudeshni Mirza
33. Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder 210
Anthony James
34. Emerging Personality Disorder 217
Eileen Vizard

Section 6: Assessment.

35. Diagnostic Classification: Current Dilemmas and Possible Solutions 224
Eric Taylor
36. Paediatric Neuropsychological Assessment I: An Assessment Framework 229
Judith Middleton
37. Paediatric Neuropsychological Assessment II: Domains for Assessment 234
Jane Gilmour and Bettina Hohnen
38. Assessment of Child Psychiatric Disorders 245
Helen Bruce and Navina Evans
39. Psychological Assessment 251
Michael Berger
40. Family Therapy Assessment 255
Alexandra Mary John

Section 7: Approaches to Intervention.

41. Discovering Psychiatric Pharmacogenomics 261
David A. Mrazek
42. Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy for Children and Adolescents 265
Cathy Creswell and Thomas G. O'Connor
43. Parenting Programmes for Conduct Problems 271
Stephen Scott and Sajid Humayun
44. Systemic and Family Approaches to Intervention 276
Philip Messent
45. Psychotherapeutic Approaches: A Psychodynamic Perspective 281
Eilis Kennedy
46. Paediatric Psychopharmacology: Special Considerations 286
Paramala J. Santosh and Rakendu Suren

Index 295