Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Developing competencies -- 1a: contextual influences upon social and emotional development -- Family and systemic influences -- Child development and cultural considerations in clinical practice -- Neurobehavioural development in infancy: the buffering and transducing role of the mother/caretaker-infant dyad -- Genetic and biological influences -- Section 1b: general patterns of development -- Clinical evaluation of development from birth to 5 years -- Emotional development in the first year of life -- Young people with learning disabilities -- Language development -- Development of social cognition -- Social and emotional development in middle childhood -- Social-cognitive development during adolescence -- Section 2. Promoting well-being -- Attachment in the early years: theory, research and clinical implications -- Promoting infant mental health -- Promoting children's well-being: the prevention of depression and anxiety -- Fostering resilience in adolescents -- Sexual orientation, sexual health and gender dysphoria -- Child users of online and mobile technologies -- risks, harms and intervention -- Section 3. The impact of trauma, loss and maltreatment -- 3a: trauma and loss -- Chidlren bereaved by parent or sibling death -- Stress and reactions to stress in children -- Children's developing sense of moral agency, and the disruptions associated with war exposure -- Section 3b: maltreatment -- Child maltreatment -- The neuroscience and genetics of childhood maltreatment -- Section 4. Atypical development in children and adolescents -- Autism spectrum disorder -- an evolving construct -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents -- Childhood behavioural disorders -- Depression and suicidal behaviour -- Eating disorders in adolescence -- Emerging personality disorder -- Literacy disorders -- Challenges in child and adolescent obsessive compulsive disorder -- Medically unexplained symptoms/functional symptoms in children and adolescents -- Paediatric bipolar disorder -- Early intervention in psychosis -- Developmental language disorder -- Substance misuse in young people -- Section 5. Assessment and approaches to intervention -- New perspectives on the classification of child psychiatric disorders -- Paediatric neuropsychological assessment: domans for assessment -- Cognitive behavioural therapy for children and adolescents -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents -- Systemic and family approaches to intervention -- Mentalization -- Parenting programmes for conduct problems -- Paediatric psychopharmacology -- special considerations -- Paediatric liaison -- Promoting educational success: how findings from neuroscience can guide educators to work optimally with the brain -- Continuities and discontinuities in youth mental healthcare -- The children and young people's improving access to psychological therapies (CYP IAPT) programme in England.

Written by expert clinicians and researchers in the fields of both normal and atypical child development, the third edition of Child Psychology and Psychiatry offers a balance between the scientific basis of child psychopathology and the assessment and management of clinical problems.