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Conduct disorder is the most prevalent emotional disorder in children and adolescents, and therefore requires special attention from clinicians. ""Conduct Disorders in Children and Adolescents"" provides a comprehensive and balanced view of this field. It addresses the biological, psychological and interpersonal aspects of aggressive behaviour and conduct disorders, and includes up-to-date clinical research. This single volume covers the range of treatments now available, including individial, family, group, and behaviour therapy, hospitalisation and residential treatment. Special chapters address the new therapeutic interventions of pharmacotherapy and parent management training.

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This substantial volume of a dozen and a half contributions should be welcomed for its comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge. -- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic [A] useful reference for people working with children and adolescents presenting with conduct disorders, particularly those seeking to develop and research their own treatment strategies. -- British Journal of Psychiatry This work provides a comprehensive view of an area that has confronted, from the birth of our fields, child psychiatrists and other mental health professionals concerned with caring for disturbed youngsters. Acknowledged experts have crafted the component chapters for easy and fluid reading. -- Theodore A. Petti, M.D., M.P.H., Arthur B. Richter Professor of Child Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine

This substantial volume of a dozen and a half contributions should be welcomed for its comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge. -- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

<p> This substantial volume of a dozen and a half contributions should be welcomed for its comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge. -- Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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G. Pirooz Sholevar, M.D., F.A.P.A., is Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey. He is President of the Philadelphia Academy of Family Psychiatry.

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