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Details the current status of research and practice in child psychopathology and clinical child psychology. Part I considers developmental, etiological, diagnostic, and taxonomic issues in detail, and addresses clinical formulation of psychopathology. Part II examines a variety of psychopathologies, with each chapter organized around issues of definition, diagnosis, etiology, assessment, and treatment, with case studies. Part III covers psychological aspects of physical disorders, with chapters on headaches, AIDS, asthma, diabetes, cancer, abuse and neglect, and stress. This section reflects the impact of behavioral medicine and pediatric psychology on the practice of clinical child psychology. Part IV reviews psychodynamic, behavioral, and psychopharmacological treatments. This third edition incorporates developments in the field since 1989, and includes a final chapter on preventive strategies within the context of a proactive-developmental-ecological perspective. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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In our first edition of the Handbook in 1983, we the origins and course(s) of maladaptive behav ior, whatever the causes, whatever the age of on noted that child psychopathology should no longer be viewed as a downward extension of set, whatever the transformations in behavioral adult psychopathology. Rather, we suggested expression, and however complex the develop that children should be viewed as children, not mental pattern may prove to be. It strives to inte as miniature adults, and that a merger of the dis grate these two disciplines in an intimate and of ciplines of clinical child psychology and devel tentimes complex manner. opmental psychology must occur for this evolu Careful attention to issues of development and tion to be fully realized. In the second edition of other contextual issues relevant to children, ad the Handbook in 1989, we asserted that the syn olescents, and their families guided us in our ef thesis of these two fields of inquiry was under forts to solicit contributors for this third edition.
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