The Origins And Course of Common Mental Disorders

The Origins of Common Mental Disordersdescribes the nature, characteristics and causes of common emotional and behavioral disorders across the lifespan, providing a clear and concise account or recent advances in our knowledge of the origins and history of anxious, depressive and behavioral disorders. Combining a lifespan approach with developments in neurobiology, this book describes the epidemiology of emotional and behavioral disorders in child hood, adolescence and adult life. David Goldberg and Ian Goodyer demonstrate how both genes and environments exert different but key effects on the development of these disorders and suggest a developmental model as the most appropriate for determining vulnerabilities for psychopathology. Divided into four sections, the book covers: The nature and distribution of common mental disorders The biological basis of common disorders The human life cycle relevant to common disorders The developmental model This highlyreadable account of the origins of emotional and behavioral disorders will be of interest to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and counselors.

David Goldberg is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London Ian Goodyer is Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge