Key Features: 

- Links research with clinical practice via a focus on evidence-based therapies for childhood disorders, balancing solid empirical science and clinical insights and thus helping students filter clinically valuable findings from those lacking utility.

- An emphasis on developmental perspective to better understand psychopathology, with use of normal development as a lens through which to view abnormal behavior or emotional problems.

- Case studies and real-life examples are in each chapter.



New to this Edition:

- Discusses new, evidence-based treatments for children and adolescents.

- New chapter on child and adolescent health-related disorders.