This volume contains an overview of the history of the field of child psychiatry and examines contemporary issues facing child and adolescent psychiatrists, including the roles that changing family dynamics, multi-culturalism, new technologies, play in children's development, specialized applications such as forensic psychiatry; and insurance-related, ethical and administrative issues that affect child psychiatrists' practices.

Joseph D. Noshpitz is the editor of Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 7, Advances and New Directions, published by Wiley. Paul L. Adams was an American academic who served as president of Roberts Wesleyan College from 1974 to 1981. He also twice ran for Governor of New York as a Conservative Party candidate, recording some of the highest totals by a third-party candidate in state history.