Abnormal Child Psychology

The textbook Abnormal Child Psychology, 6th Edition, provides an academic study of psychological disorders in children and adolescents. The text balances developmental frameworks, clinical-diagnostic principles, and experimental research to examine how childhood conditions emerge and evolve.

Its chapters incorporate DSM-5 diagnostic categories alongside dimensional classification models. Readers examine evidence-based assessment and treatment strategies while following the developmental progression of each condition as it unfolds over time.

Written to remain accessible to a broad audience of readers, the volume demonstrates how child psychopathology involves interactions among biological, psychological, and sociocultural influences in the environment. Case examples and first-person accounts illustrate how these conditions appear in everyday life.