Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Integrating Science and Practice

Robert Weis

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781071964668
• Edition: 5
• eBook ISBN:
  9781071964699
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Introduction to Child and Adolescent Psychopathology provides a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding mental disorders and their evidence-based treatments. Using a developmental psychopathology approach, author Robert Weis opens each chapter with a description of the disorder, including the complete DSM-5-TR criteria, prevalence, and associated features. The causes of each disorder are then analyzed through biological, psychological, and social–cultural lenses, followed by a discussion of evidence-based treatments, using criteria established by the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Fifth Edition includes updated research throughout, with special attention to developments since the COVID-19 pandemic, including an increase in digital media use, and it features case studies and pedagogy designed to help students understand and retain the material.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Case Studies
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Chapter 1 Supporting Children’s Mental Health
• Chapter 2 Theories of Development
• Chapter 3 Research Methods with Children and Families
• Chapter 4 Assessing and Treating Children’s Mental Health Problems
• Chapter 5 Intellectual Developmental Disorder
• Chapter 6 Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Chapter 7 Communication and Learning Disorders
• Chapter 8 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Chapter 9 Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents
• Chapter 10 Substance Use Problems In Adolescents
• Chapter 11 Anxiety and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
• Chapter 12 Trauma and Child Maltreatment
• Chapter 13 Depression, Suicide, and Self-Injury
• Chapter 14 Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
• Chapter 15 Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Chapter 16 Elimination, Sleep, and Health Problems
• Glossary
• References
• Index