Essentials of Understanding Abnormal Behavior, Brief
ISBN: 9780618376339 | 061837633X
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 9/22/2004
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This brief text offers the same sociocultural focus, multicultural models, topical coverage, and engaging style of its parent text in a condensed, student-friendly format. The wealth of visuals, case studies, examples, and modular reviews combine with thorough research updates, making the text a comprehensive tool for abnormal psychology students. Several pedagogical aids help students grasp and retain material. Chapter outlines provide a topical overview while Focus Questions guide students to seek their own answers as they read the chapter. Case studies highlight issues of mental health and mental disorders, using actual clinical files to illuminate topics. In addition, Mental Health in Society boxes focus on mental health issues that carry wide implications for society to stimulate critical thinking, evoke alternative views, and provoke discussion to help students explore a broader meaning of abnormal behavior. Checkpoint Reviews interspersed throughout each chapter provide students with an opportunity to revisit concepts and reiterate the Focus Questions in addition to covering key terms. Marginal glossary terms provide a quick reference. Key terms are highlighted throughout each chapter and are defined in comprehensive glossary at the end of the text.
| Abnormal Behavior | |
| The Concerns of Abnormal Psychology | |
| Defining Abnormal Behavior | |
| Cultural Considerations in Abnormality | |
| Sociopolitical Considerations in Abnormality | |
| The Frequency and Burden of Mental Disorders | |
| Historical Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior | |
| Causes: Early Viewpoints Contemporary | |
| Trends in Abnormal Psychology | ... MORE|
| The Scientific Method in Clinical Research | |
| Experiments Correlational Studies | |
| Analogue Studies | |
| Single-Participant Studies | |
| Biological Research | |
| Strategies Ethical Issues in Research | |
| Some Closing Thoughts | |
| Abnormal Behavior: Models and Treatments | |
| Models in the Study of Psychopathology | |
| Biological Models | |
| Psychodynamic Models | |
| Behavioral Models | |
| Cognitive Models | |
| Humanistic and Existential Approaches | |
| The Family Systems Model | |
| Models of Diversity and Psychopathology | |
| An Integrative Approach to Models of Psychopathology | |
| Assessment and Classification of Abnormal Behavior | |
| Reliability and Validity | |
| The Assessment of Abnormal Behavior | |
| The Classification of Abnormal Behavior | |
| Anxiety Disorders | |
| Panic Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder | |
| Phobias Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | |
| Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders | |
| Dissociative Disorders and Somatoform Disorders | |
| Dissociative Disorders Somatoform Disorders | |
| Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions | |
| Characteristics of Psychophysiological Disorders | |
| Models for Understanding Stress | |
| Stress and the Immune System | |
| Psychological Involvement in Specific Physical Disorders | |
| Treatment of Psychophysiological Disorders | |
| Personality Disorders | |
| The Personality Disorders | |
| Antisocial Personality Disorder | |
| Substance-Related Disorders | |
| Substance-Use Disorders | |
| Etiology of Substance-Use Disorders | |
| Intervention and Treatment of Substance-Use Disorders | |
| Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders | |
| The Study of Human Sexuality | |
| Sexual Dysfunctions | |
| Gender Identity Disorders | |
| Paraphilias | |
| Mood Disorders and Suicide | |
| The Symptoms of Depression | |
| The Symptoms of Mania Classification of Mood Disorders | |
| The Etiology of Mood Disorders | |
| The Treatment of Mood Disorders | |
| Suicide | |
| Schizophrenia: Diagnosis and Etiology Schizophrenia | |
| The Symptoms of Schizophrenia | |
| Types of Schizophrenia | |
| The Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia | |
| Etiology of Schizophrenia Heredity and Schizophrenia | |
| Physiological Factors in Schizophrenia | |
| Environmental Factors in Schizophrenia | |
| The Treatment of Schizophrenia | |
| Cognitive Disorders | |
| Types of Cognitive Disorders | |
| Etiology of Cognitive Disorders | |
| Treatment Considerations | |
| Mental Retardation | |
| Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence Pervasive | |
| Developmental Disorders | |
| Other Developmental Disorders | |
| Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity | |
| Disorders and Disruptive | |
| Behavior Disorders | |
| Eating Disorders | |
| Types of Eating Disorders | |
| Etiology of Eating Disorders | |
| Treatment of Eating Disorders | |
| Legal and Ethical Issues in Abnormal Psychology | |
| Criminal Commitment | |
| Civil Commitment | |
| The Therapist-Client Relationship | |
| Cultural Competence and the Mental Health Profession | |
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