Abnormal Child Psychology (6th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

David A. Wolfe

Dr. David Allen Wolfe is a psychologist, academic and an author specializing in issues of domestic violence, child abuse, children and youth. His work includes the promotion of healthy relationships via school programs, with a major focus on the prevention of child neglect and abuse, dating violence, bullying, substance abuse, unsafe sex and other consequences of unhealthy relationships.

Winner of many awards, David earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York in 1973, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of South Florida in 1980. After his residency in Clinical psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Wolfe moved to Canada to pursue his career focus on domestic violence and child abuse with an emphasis on prevention. He joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in 1981 where he conducted extensive research in the field of child abuse.

Eric Mash

Dr. Eric Mash is a professor of psychology at University of Calgary (Canada), where he enjoys teaching undergraduate classes in behavior modification, abnormal child psychology, and developmental psychopathology as well as graduate classes in clinical psychology, specifically in child assessment, child psychopathology, and child psychotherapy. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Florida State University (USA), and completed his residency in clinical child psychology at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon (USA).

Dr. Mash commits much of his energy and time outside of the classroom to researching the topics of abnormal child psychology, child psychotherapy, child and family assessment, and child development. Particularly interested in attention-deficit disorder and conduct problems, and in families in which children have been physically abused, he has contributed and published many journal articles and textbooks on these topics. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, and has served on the editorial boards of many prestigious journals and grant agencies at local and federal levels.