Developmental Psychopathology Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation

The second of two complementary volumes on developmental psychopathology, the new perspective on mental disorder that is rapidly becoming the dominant perspective on mental illness. This volume deals with assessment, classification and diagnosis; risk factors (contributory causes), such as maltreatment, family discord, etc.; and disoders -- the latter running the gamut fromretardation to addictions to schizophrenia, all from the developmental point of view.Cicchetti, Dante is the author of 'Developmental Psychopathology Risk, Disorder, and Adaptation' with ISBN 9780471532446 and ISBN 0471532444.