Fifth Edition

Edited by:

Michael Rutter CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FRS, FMedSci, FBA

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, MRC, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

Dorothy Bishop MA, DPhil, FBA, FMedSci

Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Daniel Pine MD

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Stephen Scott FRCP FRCPsych

Professor of Child Health and Behaviour, & Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

Jim Stevenson BA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FBPsS

Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Eric Taylor MA, MB, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

Anita Thapar MBBCH, FRCPsych, PhD

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Fifth Edition has become an established textbook of child psychiatry. Now completely revised and updated, the fifth edition provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help trainee and practising clinicians in their daily work. It is distinctive in being both interdisciplinary and international, in its integration of science and clinical practice, and in its practical discussion of how researchers and practitioners need to think about conflicting or uncertain findings.

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