
Through a thoughtful & accurate balance of developmental clinical-diagnostic & experimental approaches to child & adolescent psychopathology Eric Mash & David Wolfe's Abnormal Child Psychology remains the most authoritative scholarly & comprehensive book in its market This edition has been organized & updated to reflect DSM-5 categories as well as dimensional approaches to classification & evidence-based assessment & treatment Accessible to a broad range of readers the book traces the developmental course of each disorder It also shows how child psychopathology involves biological psychological & sociocultural factors interacting with a child's environment Case histories case examples & first-person accounts are at the heart of the book illustrating the categorical & dimensional approaches used to describe disorders & bringing life to the theories discussed The authors also consistently illustrate how troubled children behave in their natural settings homes schools & communities