Abnormal Child Psychology
Mash; WolfeSinopsis
Balancing developmental clinical diagnostic and experimental approaches to child and adolescent psychopathology Eric Mash and David Wolfe s ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY is one of the most up to date authoritative and comprehensive books in its market The seventh edition is organized to reflect DSM 5 categories dimensional approaches to classification and evidence based assessment and treatment approaches The authors trace developmental pathways for each disorder and show how child and adolescent psychopathology involves biological psychological and sociocultural factors interacting with a youth s environment Case histories examples and first person accounts illustrate the categorical and dimensional approaches used to describe disorders The authors also consistently illustrate how troubled children behave in their natural settings homes schools and communities