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Sommario
- Disruptive Mood: Irritability in Children and Adolescents
- 1: Irritability: overview and introduction
- 2: Terminology
- 3: Assessment of children with irritability
- 4: Development of anger
- 5: Prevalence and course
- 6: Neuroscience of irritability
- 7: ADHD and irritability
- 8: Irritability in autism spectrum disorders
- 9: Irritability and disruptive behaviour disorders
- 10: Irritability and bipolar disorder
- 11: Irritability in depressive disorders
- 12: Irritability and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
- 13: Irritability in brain disorders and damage
- 14: Clinical management of irritability and disruptive mood
- 15: Future directions and a model for irritability
Info autore
Argyris Stringaris is a clinician scientist funded by the Wellcome Trust to study mood in health and disease across human development. He trained at the Maudsley Hospital (MRCPsych), the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London (PhD), and the National Institutes of Health (Clinical Research Fellow) in the USA.
Eric Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry; and an honorary consultant at 'The Maudsley'. He has researched, practised clinically, and taught child neuropsychiatry since 1971. He has been a Trustee of the National Academy of Parenting practitioners, Chair of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and a Non-Executive Director of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His research won the Ruane prize from NARSAD for severe child psychopathologies and he is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Riassunto
A guide to understanding and treating children and adolescents for whom extreme levels of angry outbursts ('irritability') are a problem needing professional attention.
