...the book is enormous not only in page number but in the size of the contribution it makes to the field.

...a compilation of chapters written by some of the most eminent researchers across multiple fields of study. Coedited by Dante Cicchetti and the late Donald J. Cohen, the second edition of Developmental Psychopathology will be extremely useful to researchers, practitioners, and instructors of graduate-level seminars.

...one of the greatest strengths of this handbook is that a few overarching themes are interwoven throughout. [The four main themes are]...the bidirectional nature of development, [that]...it is not fruitful to look for any single variable, factor, or pathway to be the one and only predictor of psychopathology, [that]...research designs and data analyses must be sufficiently sophisticated to extrapolate and, if necessary, differentiate the mechanisms and the conditions that produce outcomes, [and finally] that many unanswered questions remain.- - Nicole Renick Thomson and Andy Belden