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Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the leading textbook in its field.
Both interdisciplinary and international, it provides a coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help researchers, trainees and practicing clinicians in their daily work. Integrating science and clinical practice, it is a comprehensive reference for all aspects of child and adolescent psychiatry.
New to this full color edition are expanded coverage on classification, including the newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new chapters on systems neuroscience, relationship-based treatments, resilience, global psychiatry, and infant mental health.
From an international team of expert editors and contributors, this sixth edition is essential reading for all professionals working and learning in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology as well as for clinicians working in primary care and pediatric settings.
Michael Rutter has contributed a number of new chapters and a Foreword for this edition: “I greatly welcome this new edition as providing both a continuity with the past and a substantial new look.”
―Professor Sir Michael Rutter, extract from Foreword.
Reviews of previous editions:
“This book is by far the best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to date.”
―Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH
“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
コンパクトにまとまった教科書で解説は網羅的ではありますが、知識の羅列が目的ではなく、読者の理解を促すような作りになっているので初学者に対して非常に親切です。当然のことながら英文も読みやすく、英語が苦手な方にとってもハードルは低いです。当たり前のことですが最新の文献を多く引用してあります。ページ構成はAmerican Journal of Psychiatryの誌面になんとなく似てます。本書で足りない分は、しっかりしたジャーナルの総説や原著にあたるしかないでしょう。
第6版の日本語訳も出版されていますが、価格が原書の約4倍もしますので私はこちらの原書をお勧めします。
I bought my copy of this book from Foyles in London, not Amazon. There is indeed something wrong with the binding of the book. For such a heavy book, it feels very fragile, and from the very first time I opened it I have had to be really careful not to break it. This book also weighs several kilograms, and is quite difficult to handle. Please, dear publisher, fix this - it is not right that such an expensive and useful handbook is so badly bound. A CD-ROM with the full text of the book is supplied, and it's handy for quick keyword searches, but not a very comfortable way to read longer sections of this book.