Written for “physicians who deal in any way with children and adolescents,” except as psychiatrists, this book fulfills its author's promise of being a “comprehensive but simple guide to the emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence.” Indeed, Chapman's ability to convey complex concepts related to mental illness in nontechnical prose and his admixture of a number of useful techniques and ideas for counselling children and paretns informally make the book a useful primer for almost anyone who is not a specialist in the mental health professions but is interested in understanding the psychogenic disorders of the first two decades of life.