Rajinder M. Gupta studied psychology at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. He did his professional training as an educational psychologist at Exeter University and PhD at Aston. Following his training, he worked as an educational psychologist for nearly two decades. In the last 15 years, he has worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychologist in the clinical psychology departments of several NHS trusts in the Midlands and has also helped train a number of clinical psychology trainees studying for their doctorate programme at Birmingham University. His current main area of interest, both from a clinical and academic standpoint, is the study of families with interactional diffi culties with their children and effective and effi cient ways of helping them.

• Section 1. Behaviour-related Issues. Brain-behaviour Relationships in childhood Mood and Behaviour Disorders, Frederika Theus.Social Phobia in children, Clinical Considerations, Tracy L Morris, Laurie A Greco.Effective treatment for Conduct Disorder, Stephen Scott.Adopted Children's Behaviour and development in Childhood and Adolescence, David Howe.Deliberate Self-harm in children and Adolescents, Claire Dorer.Section 2. Family-related Issues.Gene-environment Transactions and Family Process, Implications for Clinical research and Practice, Kirby Deater-Deckard and Bernadette Marie Bullock.An intergenerational Perspective on Parent-child Relationships, The Reciprocal effects of Tri-generational Grandparent-parent-child Relationships, Catherine A Lavers-preston and Edmund J Sonuga-Barke.Vulnerability and Resilience in children in Divorced and Remarried Families, Thomas G O'Connor.The Impact of war on Children, Some Lessons From The Afghan Conflict, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.Section 3. General Issues Related to Clinical Practice.Children and Families, human Rights and Evidence-based Practice, Liz Goldthorpe.The Contextual influences on Practice, Managing Professional Performance, Anthony L Schwartz.Index.