LILY HECHTMAN, ED.: Do They Grow Out Of It?: Long-Term Outcomes of Childhood Disorders. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, DQ 1996, 287 pp., ISBN 0-88048-703-8.
The book consists of a preface and eleven chapters each mostly devoted to a particular clinical entity focusing on the research and clinical issues in longitudinal studies. The chapters deal with ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Childhood Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Obsession Compulsive Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Psychotic and Allied Disorders, and Childhood Speech and Language Disorders. Suicidal behavior and comorbidity with ADHD round out the book. As with any book having multiple authors writing different …