Integrating Trends in Child Psychopathology: A Historicizing Review of Ollendick and Hersen'sHandbook of Child Psychopathology, 1998

A historical overview of the pragmatic and multidisciplinary field of child psychopathology, its origins, evolving trends, and future directions, supplements the 1998 edition of Ollendick and Hersen's Handbook of Child Psychopathology, A detailed review of this comprchensive 26-chapter handbook follows. Editors Ollendick and Hersen, with some 50 authors, successfully showcase contemporary, mainly cognitive and behavioral, interventions for DSM and medically-related disorders of childhood, offering a wealth of practicable information for clinicians. The handbook illustrates an integrative trend in child psychology research, combining nomothetic approaches from the developmental tradition, idiographic approaches from clinical psychopathology, and attention to numerous intrinsic and extrinsic variables from systems theory. Beyond the handbook, the review presents research achieving even fuller integration, arguing that better prevention and treatment requires research measuring idiographic, social interaction variables to discover their interrelationships with aggregate level variables of developmental approaches.