Publisher's Synopsis
"Fundamentals of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology" is a basic text geared toward students of psychiatry, medicine and allied disciplines. The framework for the description of the disorders discussed in this book is the DSM-III-R classification system.;The authors address the various aspects of normal child development, common psychiatric symptoms that are not part of any psychopathologic disorder and issues related to certain kinds of physical handicaps and special problems.