Handbook of Disruptive Behavior Disorders

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide the Part I covers the classification, epidemiol researcher, clinician, teacher, and student in all ogy, and assessment of all three categories of mental health fields with as up-to-date infor the Disruptive Behavior Disorders. mation as possible about what have come to be Part II provides reviews of the research on called the Disruptive Behavior Disorders of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, cov children and adolescents. To accomplish our ering information processing, cognitive func purpose we have called upon 5 1 researchers and tioning, the child with this disorder in the theorists in psychology, child and adolescent family, school, and peer group, as well as psychiatry, and education to provide compre reviews of the psychobiology, risk factors, phar hensive reviews of research in their areas of ex macotherapy, behavioral interventions, adoles pertise. That this Handbook has more than 2600 cent and adult outcomes, and theories of the references attests to both the amount of re disorder.