Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology

by Vicky Phares and Phares

Book Overview

In Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology, students will learn about both normative and abnormal development throughout children's lives. Consistent with previous editions, several themes run... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471724114
• ISBN13: 9780471724117
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Understanding Abnormal Child Psychology

This is a great book for learning about normal and abnormal child behaviors. One great advantage is that the book uses as its reference the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision(DSM-IV-TR). The book also presents 'case studies' where you can read each case and understand and to try to identify if it is a one is suffering from a condition or it is consider normal depending with each one's personality, behavior or interests. It is great not only for a classroom but also for anyone wanting to get to understand behaviors that to one may seem abnormal but to others it's just that person's personality, behavior and creativeness that makes every single one of us 'unique'. Great and informative textbook.