Understanding Child Behavior Disorders - Hardcover

William R. Jenson; Clifford J. Drew; Donna M. Gelfand

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155017012 ISBN 13: 9780155017016

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1997

Synopsis

This text provides an interdisciplinary approach with a developmental perspective to child psychopathology. It is solidly grounded in both quantitative and qualitative research findings and incorporates information derived from clinical practice.

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About the Author

Donna Gelfand is Professor of Psychology at the University of Utah. She received a Ph.D. in psychology with an emphasis on clinical psychology at Stanford University in 1961, and completed a clinical internship at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto. While working as a psychologist at the Community Mental Health Service of San Jose California she also taught at San Jose State University. Then she joined the faculty in the psychology department at the University of Utah, first serving as director of the department's child clinic, then coordinator of the developmental psychology program, chair of the department of psychology, and dean of the college of social and behavioral science. She studies the effects of maternal depression on children and how these adverse effects can be counteracted. In addition to this book, now in its 4th edition, she has published numerous research papers and several books, including Child Behavior Analysis and Therapy, with Donald Hartmann, Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology, with Lizette Peterson-Homer, and edited Social Learning in Childhood. She received the University of Utah's Distinguished Research Award. She has served on numerous journal editorial boards, was the founding chair of the APA Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, president of the Rocky Mt. Psychological Association, chair of Section III, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, and is listed in Who's Who in America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0155017012
• ISBN 13: 9780155017016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 483