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Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology, Second Edition, adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding childhood disorders. It balances the scientific aspects of child and adolescent psychopathology with vivid descriptions of how research findings are applied to help children and families in need. Now revised to include DSM-5 organization and diagnostic criteria, this text explores the emergence of disorders over time, describes the risk and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examines child psychopathology in the context of typical development.
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Although the first psychological clinic for children was established in 1896, Weis touts the last 25 years as the most exciting regarding new developments, citing advances in neuroscience and imaging, genetics, biology, and psychotropic medications, and also factors in social and cultural contexts, including demographic changes in the U.S. Written as an introductory text, it has a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding youths with behavioral, developmental, and socio-emotional disorders. His goals are to introduce the developmental psychopathology paradigm and show how it aids understanding of childhood disorders; examine developmental patterns over time, as well as the emergence of childhood problems; introduce the multitude of factors that cause child psychopathology; and explore each disorder across five broad levels of analysis: genetics, biology, psychological processes, interpersonal relations, and the social-cultural context. Sixteen chapters are divided into five parts: principles of science and practice; developmental and learning disorders; disruptive disorders and substance use problems; emotion and thought disorders; and health-related problems. This second edition includes new developments in the research literature, including new psychological disorders; hundreds of new references published in the last three years; restructuring to comport with the DSM-5, and includes new child and adolescent disorders that appear in DSM-5.; and adds two new chapters: Communication Disorders in Children, and Health-Related disorders and Pediatric Psychology. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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