Michael Troy - Böcker

To provide you with a meaningful framework for learning and understanding, Parritz and Troy’s DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD, 4th EDITION, is written with the whole child in mind and presents disorders in the context of typical development and developmental pathways. Multiple themes recur throughout the text: the continuity between typical and atypical development, risk and resilience, complex models of psychopathology, children in relationships over time, children in larger social contexts (ethnic backgrounds, neighborhoods, cultures), and the holistic nature of development (thinking about the child's abilities and strengths in addition to the disorder or areas of struggle). This developmental psychopathology approach, which reflects the most up-to-date understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology, will teach you to think about disorders in terms of the individual children who are coping with distress and dysfunction.

To provide you with a meaningful framework for learning and understanding, this text is written with the whole child in mind and presents disorders in the context of typical development and developmental pathways. Multiple themes recur throughout the text: the continuity between typical and atypical development; risk and resilience; complex models of psychopathology; children in relationships over time; children in larger social contexts (ethnic backgrounds, neighborhoods, cultures); and the holistic nature of development (thinking about the whole child and his or her abilities and strengths as well as his or her disorder or areas of struggle). This developmental psychopathology approach, which reflects the most up-to-date understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology, will teach you to think about disorders in terms of the individual children who are coping with distress and dysfunction.

“As the title suggests, The Fuck Business is a hard-boiled dirty book about coming of age in Boston’s long-gone Combat Zone. But unlike most memoirists of the underworld, Michael Troy has genuine literary chops. He has seen the sex trades from all angles, so even his sharpest insights and most harrowing stories are told with generosity, humility, and gentle humor. Years from now, historians will be reading this memoir to find out what ‘The Life’ was really like from a master of its many arts.”—Debby Applegate, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age