Reviews for Abnormal Child Psychology With Printed Access Card Thomsonnow

The average rating for Abnormal Child Psychology With Printed Access Card Thomsonnow based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-17 00:00:00 Wally Tulk This was not a particularly memorable read, and I had to go back to the book a final time (I doubt I'll revisit this often) to check my notes. Dense but easily readable by (probably) older high-school students, this is a pretty run-of-the-mill textbook: Each page is packed to the brim with bicolumnal, small, serif text and occasionally smattered by graphs and photos and panels inviting "a closer look" in, ironically, even smaller font sizes. The writers were pretty tone-deaf and/or ignorant when it came to reporting on gender differences; clearly, the authorship that won out for this textbook was not trained in feminist theory, which is painfully typical. A specific example is found early in the book, around page 20, wherein they talk about propensities for hostile aggression in male children and cunning, passive aggressive sabotage in female children and try to explain this with evolutionary psychology (nUrtUrAnCe tHo) or "but why could this be???", as if there hasn't been [likely if not more than] hundreds of feminist philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and scientists in myriad fields who have identified gender socialization and patriarchy more generally as the prevailing etiology for sex differences. But, overall, it was okay. I did learn a decent amount.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-07-28 00:00:00 Mark Cooper 2/5 stars TW: ableism While this book talks in clear language and the first several chapters were good, it also displays sexist and ableist views. One caption in the book suggested that children's interests were conditioned by socialization and biology, which is a problematic and archaic view. Additionally, the chapter on autism/ASD 1) suggested that autism undermines a person's humanity, and 2) that splinter/savant skills must improve functioning in order to be worth anything (as if we any neurotypical person needs to write, paint, or sing to function in life), and 3) cited Autism Speaks as an authority on the subject. There were more instances of problematic language throughout the book, but these were some of the most jarring. Considering the kinds of biased and wrong things that were written about ASD and other disorders, I don't really know how much of this book is accurate and question a lot of what I read.