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Volume 5. Children and adolescents: Clinical formulation and treatment. Edited by Thomas Ollendick. Pp. 754.
Thomas Ollendick has edited a scholarly, sensitive and up-to-the-minute volume on clinical child psychology. The impressive collection of scientists and clinicians are drawn from Australia, Canada, Israel, the UK and the US. Together they have produced a `state-of-the-art' (and 'science') resource. Ollendick states in his preface that the volume takes 'a clinical-research approach that is both developmentally sensitive and contextually embedded', and he does not disappoint. The developmental perspective to child psychopathology and the importance of the wider context with which the child lives is a key theme in many of the individual chapters.
It is a book to dip into as a resource and I have commented only briefly here on one or two of the chapters that I have found particularly pertinent to my work as a researcher, clinician and teacher. Other readers, no doubt would have highlighted different chapters from this rich resource.
In Section I (the foundations for the...