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Penetrating and comprehensive, this new volume integrates the most up-to-date theory and research relating to childhood dysfunction and its determinants. Grounded in a developmental systems framework, each chapter considers the significant biological, behavioral, social, cognitive, and affective models pertaining to a particular childhood disorder.
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Sixteen chapters written by psychologists, neuropsychiatrists, physicians, researchers, and their ilk provide current, comprehensive summaries of specific childhood disorders from biological, psychological, and social perspectives. Topics include attention-deficit/hyperactivity, conduct and oppositional defiant disorders, depression, anxieties, post-traumatic stress, social withdrawal, autism, childhood-onset schizophrenia, mental retardation, learning disabilities, tic disorders, child maltreatment, eating disorders, and health-related disorders. Subject and author indexed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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