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Comprehensive Clinical Psychology. Ed. by Alan S. Bellack and Michel Hersen. New York: Elsevier Science, 1998. 11 vols. acid free $3,495/set (ISBN 0-08-042707-3/set). Web site: www.elsevier.com.
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology aims to serve as a "single source of information on the scientific status of clinical psychology and its subspecialties, on theory, and on clinical techniques" (introduction, vol. 1, p. ix). The set comprises ten volumes of text (Foundations, Professional Issues, Research and Methods, Assessment, Children and Adolescents: Clinical Formulation and Treatment, Adults: Clinical Formulation and Treatment, Clinical Geropsychology, Health Psychology, Applications in Diverse Populations, Sociocultural and Individual Differences), each ranging from 380 to 723 pages in length, and an index volume. The work reflects the international nature of the discipline's scholarship-Alan S. Bellack and Michel Hersen served as editors-in-chief while a volume editor oversaw the development of each volume, with individual chapters solicited from eminent psychologists worldwide. (For example, the editor of volume six is from the United Kingdom, and contributors are from...