In this collection of 17 chapters aimed at mental health professionals and graduate students, Luby (child psychiatry, Washington U. School of Medicine in St. Louis) brings together discussions of early-onset mental disorders in children from ages three to six. Introductory chapters review literature on the development of self-concept, emotions and socialization, and cognition, followed by examinations of disorders affecting eating, sleeping, anxiety, attachment, and mood, in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and autism. Treatment, including play therapies and psychopharmacology, is outlined, as well as neuropsychological assessment. Authors work in the fields of psychiatry, human development and family studies, psychology, developmental epidemiology, education, child development, and pediatrics at universities in the US. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In this collection of 17 chapters aimed at mental health professionals and graduate students, Luby (child psychiatry, Washington U. School of Medicine in St. Louis) brings together discussions of early-onset mental disorders in children from ages three to six. Introductory chapters review literature on the development of self-concept, emotions and socialization, and cognition, followed by examinations of disorders affecting eating, sleeping, anxiety, attachment, and mood, in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and autism. Treatment, including play therapies and psychopharmacology, is outlined, as well as neuropsychological assessment. Authors work in the fields of psychiatry, human development and family studies, psychology, developmental epidemiology, education, child development, and pediatrics at universities in the US. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Joan L. Luby, MD, is an infant/preschool psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she is the founder and director of the Early Emotional Development Program. This clinical and research program focusing on mood disorders in preschool children was the first of its kind nationally. Dr. Luby has been awarded grants from the National Institute of Mental Heath and the National Alliance for Schizophrenia and Depression, which have supported her research on the phenomenology of early-onset mood disorders. She currently chairs the Infancy Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and serves on several scientific advisory groups focused on the development of age-appropriate diagnostic criteria for preschool disorders.

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