Psychosocial Disorders in Young People: Time Trends and Their Causes

by Michael Rutter (Editor), David John Smith

Written by an international group of acknowledged experts, it provides up-to-date information not only on the psychosocial disorders (substance use, crime, depression, suicide, eating disturbances) but also on wider societal changes considered as possible explanations (family patterns, living conditions, values and morals, media, the developmental process). Presents a comprehensive report on the changes in youth behaviour and culture in Europe, focusing primarily on youth problems.

864 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

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Professor Sir Michael Rutter is the first consultant of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom. He has been described as the "father of child psychology". Currently he is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, a post he has held since 1966.