Pediatric Psychodermatology - A Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychocutaneous Disorders

Psychodermatology is a relatively new field in evolution and thus, there is a comparative paucity of information in general. However, when it comes to children and adolescents there is a complete vacuum of information as no other book has aimed to specifically address the psychodermatological issues facing this particular population. For assessment, diagnosis, comprehensive treatment of children with psychodermatologic conditions and establishing a relationship between skin and psyche, there is a lack of clear and relevant clinical information about these complex disorders. The complexity of these disorders is related to lack of understanding in genetic, embryonic, physiologic, neuroimmunologic, neurocutaneous, stress-related neuromodulation, and psychosomatic interconnections.
This book presents a clinically relevant approach to the management of psychodermatologic issues encountered in normal practice. Various classifications and major categories that are discussed include psychophysiologic disorders, psychiatric conditions with dermatologic manifestations, dermatologic disorders predisposing to psychiatric disorders, systemic diseases with psychodermatological manifestations, and special issues in management of psychocutaneous disorders in children and adolescents.

About the author

Ruqiya Shama Tareen, Donald E. Greydanus, Mohammad Jafferany, and Dilip R. Patel, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; Joav Merrick, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel.

Product details

• Assisted by: Donal E Greydanus (Editor), Donald E Greydanus (Editor), Donald E. Greydanus (Editor), Mohammad Jafferany (Editor), Mohammad Jafferany et al (Editor), Joav Merrick (Editor), Dilip R Patel (Editor), Dilip R. Patel (Editor), Ruqiya S. Tareen (Editor), Ruqiya Shama Tareen (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9783110273878
• ISBN: 978-3-11-027387-8
• No. of pages: 550
• Dimensions: 174 mm x 32 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 1222 g
• Illustrations: 60 b/w and 60 col. ill., 100 b/w tbl.
• Series: Health, Medicine and Human Development; Health, Medicine and Human Development
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine