Mash/Wolfe/Nguyen Williams' CHILD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 8th Edition, introduces you to childhood and adolescent disorders, treatments and preventions with an approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of biological, psychological, social and emotional influences. You'll learn about each disorder from the perspective of the whole child, with diagnostic criteria and an emphasis on the individual's strengths, environmental circumstances, issues regarding younger and older age groups and the risk and protective factors affecting developmental pathways. Case histories, examples and first-person accounts are at the heart of the text, bringing to life theories and disorders and the real people affected by them.

Eric Mash is a professor of psychology at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he enjoys teaching undergraduate classes in child psychopathology, behavior modification and developmental psychopathology, as well as graduate classes in clinical psychology, specifically in child psychopathology, child assessment and child psychotherapy. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Florida State University and completed his residency in clinical child psychology at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. Eric commits much of his time and energy outside the classroom to researching the topics of child psychopathology, child and family assessment, child psychotherapy and child development. Particularly interested in attention-deficit disorder and conduct problems and in families in which children have been physically abused, Eric has contributed and published many journal articles and books on these topics. He is also a Fellow of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations and has served on the editorial boards of many prestigious journals and grant agencies at local and federal levels.