Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Advances and New Directions (Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 7)

This volume contains an overview of the history of the field of child psychiatry and examines contemporary issues facing child and adolescent psychiatrists, including the roles that changing family dynamics, multi-culturalism, new technologies, play in children's development, specialized applications such as forensic psychiatry; and insurance-related, ethical and administrative issues that affect child psychiatrists' practices.