1. A Brief Introduction.- Part I: Children with Functional Somatic
Symptoms: The Clinical Encounter.- 2. Going to See the
Paediatrician.- 3. The Family Assessment Interview: The Narrative,
Formulation, and Discussion of Treatment Options.- Part II: Mind,
Body, and the Science of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 4. The
Stress-System Model for Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 5. The
Circadian Clock and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 6. The Autonomic
Nervous System and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 7. The
Skeletomotor System in Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 8. The HPA
Axis and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 9. The Immune-Inflammatory
System and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 10. The Role of the Gut in
the Neurobiology of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 11. The Brain
Stress Systems I: The Implicit Level of Brain Operations.- 12. The
Brain Stress Systems II: The Mind Level of Brain Operations.- Part
III: The Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 13. Principles
of Assessment and Treatment.- 14. Treatment Interventions I:
Working with the Body.- 15. Treatment Interventions II: Working
with the Mind.- 16. Treatment Interventions III: Working with the
Family and Implementing Behavioural Interventions.- 17.
Conclusion.- Main Index.- Index of Vignettes by Name, with
Principal Problems.- Index of Concepts, Problems, and Processes,
with Relevant Vignettes by Name.
Kasia Kozlowska is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and of Child and Adolescent Health at the
University of Sydney Medical School,
Australia.
Stephen Scher is Senior Editor,
Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Lecturer in Psychiatry, McLean
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA, and the University of Sydney
Medical School, Australia.
Helene Helgeland is a
child and adolescent psychiatrist at Oslo University Hospital. She
is the head of Norway’s National Advisory Unit on Complex
Psychosomatic Disorders in Children and Adolescents.
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