I can give you the book I used in 1st-year university. It covers pretty much all branches of psychology, abnormal, health, etc... . It doesn't cover forensic though but it does cover some bits on psychotherapy. It also has a chapter or two on some neuroanatomy and neurophysiology but I have to say, they are incredibly basic. It has a nice layout at the beginning with some story that flows into the chapter (about 1-2 pages of the story), questions at the end of each chapter, etc... . I have the 1st edition (Canadian one) and it has a decent introduction to the biological aspects. They're not too bad but it's not something I'd recommend if the student wanted more neuroscience.

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There are different editions but for most of these types of books, the editions don't have too many differences. I bought mine from the university bookstore so I do warn you about the issues with buying online. It's not a book that you'll learn from right away, you'll need to devote some time to it and understand the concepts, especially when it goes to some of the developmental theories. The book isn't too long though.

You can also see if you can look through the DSM-IV(-TR) or ICD-10 as they are the diagnostic books, although for a high-schooler, they may be too much.

The one issue I will warn you about as you mentioned it and you will find this in so many psych. books, there are a few cases studies mentioned in the book and they are mentioned for good reason, they helped revolutionize the area. However, the full names are not given, it's only initals, such as M.T. and not a whole lot of background info. I don't think many psych. books will exclude those things.

You'll also hit in the book some stuff about Freud... and there are the sex issues. Once again, most books will mention that as it's some of the basics.

I don't think there are many books you'll find that are good, don't mention Freud and don't show any case studies.

But the book I mentioned doesn't have too much about sex nor too much detail about the case studies so if you really want, if you're teaching the student, you can skip parts of it.