Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology

In Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology, students will learn about both normative and abnormal development throughout children’s lives. Consistent with previous editions, several themes run throughout the book:  

• Developmental psychopathology: Children's and adolescents' behaviors are on a continuum (from very adaptive to very maladaptive), with only the very severe ends of the spectrum being conceptualized as disorders.
• Diversity, inclusion, and understanding: Special attention is given to issues of race/ethnicity, gender, family constellation, religious orientation, primary language, socioeconomic status, and physical differences to help students see the commonalities and differences of abnormal child behavior within a cross-cultural and international context.

New to the 4^th edition

• Completely revised in both structure and content to reflect the DSM-5
• Increase coverage of risk factors related to long-term effects of sexual abuse and bullying.
• Increased coverage of diversity to include new "diversities" that have emerged as important, i.e. transgender children
• New research on suicide and suicide prevention

Vicky Phares is a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida. Her research looks at a variety of issues related to child, adolescent, and family functioning with particular interest in exploring the connections between psychopathology in fathers, mothers, and children, and on gender in relation to parenting, particularly as relates to anxious youth. Projects include the exploration of fathers' and mothers' involvement in therapy, mother-blaming, and racial/ethnic differences and similarities in families. She is currently exploring connections between parents' and children's prosocial behavior, with a specific focus on volunteerism.

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Conceptualizations of Normality and Abnormality In Children and Adolescents

2 Theories of Normality and Abnormality In Children and Adolescents 29

3 Research Methods In the Study of Developmental Psychopathology 53

4 Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions With Children, Adolescents, And Families 77

5 Risk Factors and Issues of Prevention 120

6 Protective Factors and Issues of Prevention 145

7 Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, and Related Problems

8 Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders and Problems 194

9 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Related Problems

10 Disruptive and Conduct Disorders and Related Problems

11 Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders and Problems

12 Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia

13 Specific Learning Disorders and Intellectual Disability

14 Pediatric Psychology and Health Psychology for Children and Adolescents

15 Ways to Help Children

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.