Gotlib (psychology, Stanford U.), Hammen (psychology, U. of California, Los Angeles) and their contributors have fully updated their material to reflect the newest research and practice for this edition, providing the latest about epidemiology, outcomes, assessment, and methodological issues in research. They address personality and mood disorders, the relationship between depression and medical illness, bipolar and unipolar depression, risk factors, models of depression, genetics, neural biological aspects, the regulation of emotion, depression and early adverse experiences, children of depressed parents, cognitive aspects, interpersonal contexts, and the role of social environment and life stress in developing depression. They also cover specific populations affected by cultures or gender, children, adolescents, couples, families, those in later life and suicides, as well protocols in prevention and treatment, pharmacotherapy, cognitive and behavioral treatment, biological and psychosocial interventions, marital and family therapies, and future directions. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)