To provide you with a meaningful framework for learning and understanding, Parritz and Troy’s DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD, 4th EDITION, is written with the whole child in mind and presents disorders in the context of typical development and developmental pathways. Multiple themes recur throughout the text: the continuity between typical and atypical development, risk and resilience, complex models of psychopathology, children in relationships over time, children in larger social contexts (ethnic backgrounds, neighborhoods, cultures), and the holistic nature of development (thinking about the child's abilities and strengths in addition to the disorder or areas of struggle). This developmental psychopathology approach, which reflects the most up-to-date understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology, will teach you to think about disorders in terms of the individual children who are coping with distress and dysfunction.

Robin Hornik Parritz, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of psychology at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota. Over the course of her academic career, Dr. Parritz taught subjects such as disorders of childhood, abnormal psychology, theories of psychotherapy, psychology of emotion, and clinical psychology. She served as the chair of psychology and administrative head for the departments of biology, neuroscience, psychology, and public health and helped to develop the forensic psychology major and the online degree completion program for psychology. Michael Troy, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and the science director for mental health and neurodevelopmental services at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota. He is also the site director for the Pediatric Innovation Initiative, coordinated through the Harvard Center for the Developing Child. He received his undergraduate degree from Lawrence University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Troy's clinical and academic interests include diagnostic classification issues in developmental psychopathology, models of therapeutic assessment, psychological assessment of adolescents at risk for major psychopathology, and teaching child clinical psychology as part of hospital and community medical education programs.