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This important volume brings together leading child psychiatry researchers to critically review the current diagnostic system and work toward new, more clinically useful ways of understanding childhood problems. The authors examine how existing diagnostic categories as embodied in the DSM-IV do not adequately account for the interplay between maladaptive behavior on the one hand, and children's environmental contexts, relationships, and developmental needs on the other. Drawing on the latest findings from neurobiological and evolutionary research, the book offers fresh perspectives on the nature, causes, assessment, and treatment of a range of prevalent disorders. The concluding chapter offers specific, cogent suggestions for improving the forthcoming DSM-V.

Peter S. Jensen, MD, is Director of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health, Ruane Professor of Child Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Research Psychiatrist with the New York State Office of Mental Health. Previously, he was Associate Director of Child and Adolescent Research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He serves on many editorial and scientific advisory boards and has published over 200 scientific articles and book chapters and 13 books.

Penny Knapp, MD, is Medical Director at the State of California Department of Mental Health. She recently retired from the University of California, Davis, where she served as Chief of the Division of Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychiatry. A member or fellow of such national organizations as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, she has several dozen refereed publications and is a journal or book reviewer for several pediatric and child psychiatry journals.

David A. Mrazek, MD, is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic Rochester and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He currently serves as Director of the S. C. Johnson Genomics of Addictions Program and Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Previously, he served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at George Washington University, and as the Leon Yochelson Professor of Psychiatry. He has authored over 200 publications and is actively involved in psychiatric pharmacogenomic research.

Introduction

1

(10)

Peter S. Jensen

David A. Mrazek

Research and Clinical Perspectives in Defining and Assessing Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents

11

(27)

Peter S. Jensen

David A. Mrazek

Understanding Early Development and Temperament from the Vantage Point of Evolutionary Theory

38

(20)

Penny Knapp

A Developmental Evolutionary Perspective on Two Anxiety Disorders

58

(20)

Daniel S. Pine

Theodore Shapiro

An Evolutionary Perspective on Childhood Depression

78

(18)

Cynthia R. Pfeffer

Application of Evolutionary Models to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

96

(15)

Peter S. Jensen

David A. Mrazek

Penny Knapp

Laurence Steinberg

Cynthia R. Pfeffer

John Schowalter

Theodore Shapiro

Conduct Disorder and Evolutionary Biology

111

(20)

Markus Kruesi

John Schowalter

Evolutionary Biology of Stress Disorders

131

(19)

Penny Knapp

Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder

150

(12)

Peter E. Tanguay

Recommendations for DSM-V

162

(21)

Penny Knapp

Peter S. Jensen

Index

183

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Toward a New Diagnostic System for Child Psychopathology Moving Beyond the DSM

Toward a New Diagnostic System for Child Psychopathology Moving Beyond the DSM

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