Springer Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: A Global, Healthcare Systems-Focused, and Problem-Based Approach

This ambitious resource presents an inventive approach to integrating pediatric and mental health care based in comprehensive, family-centered service delivery. Its framework adds a problem-solving focus to the core principles of pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, emphasizing young patients’ developmental, family, and social context. An international panel of expert clinicians explores the value of the mental health component in treating complex and chronic cases across varied settings, as well as practical considerations in implementing collaborative pediatric care systemwide, including at the global level. Detailed case histories illustrate skills and traits essential to making this problem-based approach work, such as multidimensional thinking, a prevention mentality, a dedication to lifelong learning, and empathy and respect for young clients and their families. Included in the coverage: ·        Pediatric medicine for the child psychiatrist. ·        Safety issues in a general medical facility setting. ·        “Other medical” presentations and considerations in pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry. ·        Principles of biopsychosocial formulation and interventions in the pediatric medical setting. ·        Preventive models for reducing major causes of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Child and adolescent psychiatrists, child and school psychologists, and physicians in pediatrics, general practice, and family medicine will welcome Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as both a robust training text and a blueprint for the future of children’s medicine. From the Back Cover This ambitious resource presents an inventive approach to integrating pediatric and mental health care based in comprehensive, family-centered service delivery. Its framework adds a problem-solving focus to the core principles of pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, emphasizing young patients’ developmental, family, and social context. An international panel of expert clinicians explores the value of the mental health component in treating complex and chronic cases across varied settings, as well as practical considerations in implementing collaborative pediatric care systemwide, including at the global level. Detailed case histories illustrate skills and traits essential to making this problem-based approach work, such as multidimensional thinking, a prevention mentality, a dedication to lifelong learning, and empathy and respect for young clients and their families. Included in the coverage: ·        Pediatric medicine for the child psychiatrist. ·        Safety issues in a general medical facility setting. ·        “Other medical” presentations and considerations in pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry. ·        Principles of biopsychosocial formulation and interventions in the pediatric medical setting. ·        Preventive models for reducing major causes of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Child and adolescent psychiatrists, child and school psychologists, and physicians in pediatrics, general practice, and family medicine will welcome Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as both a robust training text and a blueprint for the future of children’s medicine. About the Author Anthony P. S. Guerrero, M.D. is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine, where he completed his medical degree and his combined residency training in general pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. He is board-certified in these three specialties and has practiced in these three specialties for the entirety of his career. He has served in various educational roles (including director of medical student education and child and adolescent psychiatry residency program director); led the development of inpatient as well as outpatient/community-based pediatric consultation liaison services; and published peer-re