Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents

Kasia Kozlowska is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney Medical School, Australia. Stephen Scher is Senior Editor, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Lecturer in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA, and the University of Sydney Medical School, Australia.Helene Helgeland is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Oslo University Hospital. She is the head of Norway’s National Advisory Unit on Complex Psychosomatic Disorders in Children and Adolescents.

• 1. A Brief Introduction.- Part I: Children with Functional Somatic Symptoms: The Clinical Encounter.- 2. Going to See the Paediatrician.- 3. The Family Assessment Interview: The Narrative, Formulation, and Discussion of Treatment Options.- Part II: Mind, Body, and the Science of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 4. The Stress-System Model for Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 5. The Circadian Clock and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 6. The Autonomic Nervous System and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 7. The Skeletomotor System in Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 8. The HPA Axis and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 9. The Immune-Inflammatory System and Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 10. The Role of the Gut in the Neurobiology of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 11. The Brain Stress Systems I: The Implicit Level of Brain Operations.- 12. The Brain Stress Systems II: The Mind Level of Brain Operations.- Part III: The Treatment of Functional Somatic Symptoms.- 13. Principles of Assessment and Treatment.- 14. Treatment Interventions I: Working with the Body.- 15. Treatment Interventions II: Working with the Mind.- 16. Treatment Interventions III: Working with the Family and Implementing Behavioural Interventions.- 17. Conclusion.- Main Index.- Index of Vignettes by Name, with Principal Problems.- Index of Concepts, Problems, and Processes, with Relevant Vignettes by Name.