Psychiatric Examination of the School Child

This book, designed primarily for the medical practitioner, is intended to portray general psychaitric principles which the author's experience has shown to be useful in the clinical examination of the school child from five to 17 years of age. It is not intended to be a textbook in child psychiatry. The material is so organized, however, that it gives a good idea of what happens in a child psychiatry clinic when a child is referred for a psychiatric opinion. More important, it makes specific suggestions and describes methods of investigation which the physician can make use of in his practice. The author, a psychiatrist in Liverpool, England, has had experience in a child guidance clinic, a psychiatric clinic, a children's hospital, and a health department, and she has been able to watch the progress and development of many children over a period of from five to 10 years.