| Understanding Developmental Disorders Contributor(s): Morton (Author) |
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ISBN: 063118757X ISBN-13: 9780631187578 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons OUR PRICE: $140.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This long-awaited and ground-breaking book from cognitive scientist John Morton helps to clarify the nature of developmental disorders. It challenges the basis of standard behaviourally based diagnostic practice, showing how the role of biology and cognition is crucial to understanding the underlying nature of these disorders. It also sets out a clear method for assessing and comparing the many alternative theories. An understanding of developmental disorders depends on being able to address the issue of cause and on making the link between disorder and normal process. These were the driving forces behind the emergence of the causal modelling methodology at the Cognitive Development Unit in London by the author and his colleague Uta Frith. John Morton elucidates this method and uses it ruthlessly to compare different theories of particular developmental disorders and to pinpoint their weaknesses. The result is a book that will have a profound impact on research and thinking in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and medicine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - General - Psychology | Developmental - Child |
| Dewey: 616.858 |
| LCCN: 2004009013 |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 6.62" W x 9.34" (1.26 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range.
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