Developmental Psychopathology

Accessible and clearly written, Developmental Psychopathology encourages students to Ĺźthink developmentallyĹź about psychopathology as it develops from childhood through adolescence, under the assumption that psychopathology should be regarded as normal development gone awry. The new fifth edition includes cutting-edge research, a revised organization, and new coverage of the late adolescent/early adult periodNew research findings in every chapter on the prevalence, origins, consequences, and treatment of each of the disorders, including depression and conduct disorder. Longitudinal research has been added as it allows students to observe patterns of continuity and change over the life span. |The text has been reorganized to better reflect the age of onset of the disorders. The discussion of mental retardation has been moved into the infancy period (Chapter 4) and the topic of depression has been shifted to the middle childhood to adolescence period (Chapter 9). |A new chapter (Chapter 15) on emergent personality disorders in late adolescence/early adulthood has been added. This chapter enables students to achieve a greater range of information involving developmental psychopathology throughout the lifespan|The chapter on Ethnic Minority Children (formerly Chapter 15) has been integrated throughout the book where appropriate, giving more emphasis to ethnic, racial, class, and cross-cultural differences in psychopathology|Focuses on the forces that divert development from its normal course and what forces either sustain the deviation or foster a return to normality. Because of this unifying theme, an entire chapter (Chapter 2) is devoted to the contributions made by the biological, family, social, and cultural contexts as well as the normal development of six processes in the individual context: cognition, emotion, attachment, the self, moral development, and gender and sexuality. Students from diverse backgrounds such as education and social work can be equally well informed of the ten variables of normal development|Real-life case studies in each chapter are present in vignettes to show the disorder that is under investigation. The autobiographical material shown puts a human face on the disorders as it increases student awareness and understanding for those who suffer