Product Description: The conference on which this volume is based was one of a series of symposia initiated by the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on the theory and research surrounding topics of interest to the faculty and germane to the Hawaiian community...read more

Product Description: Age at onset studies have been an important approach to understanding disease across all medical specialties. Over the last few decades, genetic research has led to the identification of unique genes and, in some cases, physiologically different disorders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting studies of the impact of traumatic experiences on children in both a domestic and a wider context, the contributions to this volume cover topics such as include war-related trauma, community and domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, and divorce. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contributors to this volume apply a developmental focus to their examination of one of the most widely agreed upon classifications of behavior disorders in child psychopathology -- internalizing and externalizing expressions of dysfunction...read more

Product Description: Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology. Contributions to this text are unified by their incorporation of developmental principles into the study of various types of emotional disorders in children and adults...read more