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Depression in Children and Adolescents Edited by Kedar Nath Dwivedi and Ved Prakash Varma W Whurr Publishers Ltd London Depression in Children and Adolescents Depression in Children and Adolescents Edited by Kedar Nath Dwivedi and Ved Prakash Varma W Whurr Publishers Ltd London First I’ublishetl I997 by Whurr I’ublishers I.td I9h (:ompton Lonclon N I 21JN, England ‘lkrracc, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may he repi-oducecl, storccl in a retrieval system, or ti-anstnitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mech;inic;il, photocopying, recording or otherwise. without the prior permission of Whurr I’ublishers Limited. This pii1Tlic:ition is sold subject to the conditions thait it shall not. by way of trade or otherwise, be Icnt, resolcl, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is publishctl, and without ;I similar condition including this condition being imposul upon any subsequent purchaser. I3ritish 1.ibrai-y C;it;iloguing in Publication Dat:i A catalogue record for this hook is avai1:tble from the British Library. ISBN 1-897655-924 Printcd and bound bq CPI Anton) Roltc I td. rastbournc Contents ... Professor Srivastava: an Appreciation Vlll Professor Prakasb Bebere About the Contributors X ... Preface Xlll Kedar Nalb Ijwiuedi Introduction 1 Kedar Nalh Dwivedi ChaDter 1 9 lhe Nature of Depression in Childhood: its Causes and Prcsentation Jcilian Brockless Chapter 2 37 __ ___. . - Clinical Assessment and Planning for Treatment Ingrid Davison Chapter 3 48 The Family Background: the Social Worker’s Input Joan Hzitlen Chapter 4 59 ____ Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Biddy Yoztell Chapter 5 75 ~ . _ _ - Cognitive-Rehavioural Therapy for Depression in Children and Adolescents Mary Evans and Ann Murphy V Depression in Children and Adolescents ~~ Chapter 6 9 4 ~ The Place of Drugs in lreatment Finn Cosgroue Chapter 7 106 .~ ~~ The Hidden Factor. an Educational Perspective oP Depression in Learning Muriel Barrell and JzidiLh Walerfield Chapter 8 124 Depression in Childhood and Adolescence in Primary Health Care Grah a YYI Czir l is.J enkins Chapter 9 139 .. The Way Foiward: Developing a Comprehensive Service Philip Barker Index 150 Dedication The editors dedicate this book, with warm affection and esteem, to Dr O.N. Srivastava, formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu Ilniversity, Varan as i , 1n d i a, and su bse clu e n t 1y Direct or, Re s i tl e n c y Train i ng I-’rogramme,R osenburg Psychiatric Centre, The Hague, Netherlands. vi i Professor Srivastava: an Appreciation It was a great pleasure and privilege to be invited to write an apprecia- tion of Professor O.N. Srivastava, a legendary teacher and clinician for more than three clecades. Professor Srivastava became involved with psychiatry at a time when the discipline in India was beginning to move beyond the mental hospitals and was struggling to find its rightful place as an acadcmic field within medical faculties. The depth and expanse of his knowledge, his dedication to his subject, his excellence as a clinician and his organizational astuteness worked wonders during this critical period and earned psychiatry a respectable place in medicine both at the Medical Institute in Varanasi and throughout India. His deep, pene- trating and analytical insight into clinical problems, his multifaceted understanding of clinical phenomena, and his refreshing humaneness inspired successive generations of students and trainee psychiatrists both in India and in the Netherlands where he trained successive gener- ations of psychiatrists. I Iis charisma as a teacher, clinician and researcher drew the best medical graduates to psychiatry and helped it to become one of the most coveted specializations in Varanasi. In India, and later in the Netherlands, he was always a popular and highly esteemed teacher and he was the role model par excellence for his trainees. He had the rare ability to inculcate a spirit of enquiry in his students. In his approach to psychiatry, Professor Srivastava always rejected a narrow sectarian view and emphasized the biopsycho-social approach in full. He looked upon psychiatry not as a field exclusively for specialists but rather as a basic science for all physicians, irrespective of their specializations. It was this approach that led him to persuade the medical faculty in Varanasi to allocate time in the medical curriculum for the teaching of psychiatry from the very first year of medical studies. His research interests were wide and touched upon the biological as well as the psycho-social dimensions of psychiatry, but psychiatric epidemiology always held a special fascination for him as an area of viii
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