Childhood disorders can be devastating.
Effective solutions can be elusive.
As the field that wrestles with these issues, developmental psychopathology itself is only now maturing into young adulthood. In the third edition of this textbook, which is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students, Gelfand, Jenson, and Drew provide necessary and useful updates from the 1988 edition to equip students with the most recent foundation of knowledge. Innovations and changing emphases in the field since the previous edition have been many, and the new volume carefully incorporates the most salient topics and supporting research findings. For example, in keeping with clinical practice, greater attention is given to childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression. Advances in etiological hypotheses relating to the biochemical bases of disorders and behavioral genetics are discussed, in addition to the more traditional theories.