Disruptive Behavior: Development, Psychopathology, Crime, & Treatment - Softcover

Steiner, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190265450 ISBN 13: 9780190265458

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Disruptive behavior is extremely common in normal and clinical populations. This book addresses its development, the newly grouped diagnoses associated with it and their bio-psycho-social causes and treatment. The past decade has seen a great deal of progress in the psychiatric and psychological literature, which has greatly advanced our understanding of these disorders. The book discusses state of the art studies of taxonomy, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment. Each chapter concludes with a thorough discussion of the clinical implications of this new information, exemplified by real case material. A whole chapter is devoted to the forensic implications of this important grouping of disorders. The chapter begins with a discussion of the exemplary cases in the legal literature, providing the clinician and the expert with a concise briefing of the legal underpinnings of these disorders which in essence seek to bring the world of medicine to the world of crime. The final chapter provides a concise summary of all preceeding chapter, summarizing what we have learned and showing the way into the future in terms of basic research, translational research and clinical practice. Sources and resources are provided for clinicians, researchers, teacher, primary care physicians, criminologists, forensic experts and interested lay people.

About this title

About the Author

Hans Steiner, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Whitney W. Daniels, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Christina M. Stadler, PhD
Professor for Developmental Psychopathology (Extraordinaria), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric Clinics of the University Basel
Head of the Day Hospital

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190265450
• ISBN 13: 9780190265458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248