
Much like the patients on which it focuses, the field of pediatric mental health continues to grow and develop. Among other advances, the body of clinical research and the number of empirically supported treatments have grown, evaluation practices have been refined, and awareness...




This brief update on current thinking in child and adolescent psychiatry describes both general and specific approaches to the psychiatric evaluation of children. The authors discuss the importance of using multiple informants to gain a full description of children seen in psychiatric...