Written by 84 experts, each of the 56 chapters in this work presents a summary of a core topic, blending clinical experience with evidence-based practices in assessment and treatment. Divided into ten parts, this third edition has been revised and updated throughout. Clearly organized along sound diagnostic principles, this textbook combines clinical experience with the latest in research and features two new chapters on the role of culture and ethnicity, and economic issues. It also presents new dialogue about schizophrenia and psychotic disorders and mood disorders in adolescents; and it discusses adjustment and reactive disorders, substance abuse disorder, and physical and sexual abuse of children. students and psychiatry residents to practitioners, paediatricians, family physicians, general psychiatrists and family law attorneys.