{"product_id":"handbook-of-child-and-adolescent-gordon-t-collins-9798181232099","title":"Handbook Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry 2026: A Clinical Textbook Covering Developmental Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, \u0026 Evidence-Based Trea","description":"\u003cp\u003eA teenager sits across from you irritable, withdrawn, and failing classes - and that one presentation could be depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, a substance problem, or simply adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApply the adult playbook and you miss the bipolar diathesis before the antidepressant, the hypoactive delirium hiding as depression, the developmental window that turns a normal fear into a diagnosis - and a developing brain pays for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis handbook rebuilds how you discriminate look-alike presentations in youth, handing you a repeatable path from surface symptom to the right diagnosis and the right decision at the bedside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Name the pattern, not the guess\u003c\/b\u003e - the Developmental Differential Engine drives every chapter: presentation, competing diagnoses, the discriminator, the decision, one developmental anchor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Separate bipolar from DMDD on sight -\u003c\/b\u003e episodicity and decreased need for sleep, not chronic irritability, settle the call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Catch the medical mimic \u003c\/b\u003e- flag regression, atypical features, and hypoactive delirium that masquerade as psychiatric disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Treat anxiety and OCD the way that works\u003c\/b\u003e - exposure is the active ingredient, and reducing family accommodation is the lever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Assess suicide risk with confidence\u003c\/b\u003e - direct screening, collaborative safety planning, means restriction, and NSSI distinguished from a suicide attempt by intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Prescribe like a specialist\u003c\/b\u003e - off-label realities, start-low dosing, black-box warnings, and the discipline of deprescribing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Find any symptom fast\u003c\/b\u003e - the Master Engine indexes every differential by the presentation you actually see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten for child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents, board candidates, pediatricians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, family physicians, and students who care for young people.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpen it before your next ambiguous case, and decide with the clarity every child in front of you deserves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon T. Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181232099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Gordon T. Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874721804543,"sku":"9798181232099","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/handbook-of-child-and-adolescent-gordon-t-collins-9798181232099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}