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- About this Book
- Cover Page
- Inside Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- About the Authors
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present
- What Is Psychological Abnormality?
- Deviance
- Distress
- Dysfunction
- Danger
- The Elusive Nature of Abnormality
- What Is Treatment?
- How Was Abnormality Viewed and Treated in the Past?
- Ancient Views and Treatments
- Greek and Roman Views and Treatments
- Europe in the Middle Ages: Demonology Returns
- The Renaissance and the Rise of Asylums
- The Nineteenth Century: Reform and Moral Treatment
- The Early Twentieth Century: The Somatogenic and Psychogenic Perspectives
- Recent Decades and Current Trends
- How Are People with Severe Disturbances Cared For?
- How Are People with Less Severe Disturbances Treated?
- A Growing Emphasis on Preventing Disorders and Promoting Mental Health
- Multicultural Psychology
- The Increasing Influence of Insurance Coverage
- What Are Today’s Leading Theories and Professions?
- Technology and Mental Health
- Moving Forward
- Summing Up
- Chapter 2 Research in Abnormal Psychology
- What Do Clinical Researchers Do?
- The Case Study
- How Are Case Studies Helpful?
- What Are the Limitations of Case Studies?
- The Correlational Method
- Describing a Correlation
- When Can Correlations Be Trusted?
- What Are the Merits of the Correlational Method?
- The Experimental Method
- The Control Group
- Random Assignment
- Masked Design
- Alternative Research Designs
- Matched Designs
- Natural Experiments
- Analogue Experiments
- Single-Case Experiments
- Longitudinal Studies
- Epidemiological Studies
- Protecting Human Participants
- Keeping an Eye on Research Methods
- Summing Up
- Chapter 3 Models of Abnormality
- The Biological Model
- How Do Biological Theorists Explain Abnormal Behavior?
- Biological Treatments
- Assessing the Biological Model
- The Psychodynamic Model
- How Did Freud Explain Normal and Abnormal Functioning?
- How Do Other Psychodynamic Explanations Differ from Freud’s?
- Psychodynamic Therapies
- Assessing the Psychodynamic Model
- The Cognitive-Behavioral Model
- The Behavioral Dimension
- The Cognitive Dimension
- The Cognitive-Behavioral Interplay
- New Wave Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
- Assessing the Cognitive-Behavioral Model
- The Humanistic-Existential Model
- Rogers’ Humanistic Theory and Therapy
- Gestalt Theory and Therapy
- Spiritual Views and Interventions
- Existential Theories and Therapy
- Assessing the Humanistic-Existential Model
- The Sociocultural Model: Family-Social and Multicultural Perspectives
- How Do Family-Social Theorists Explain Abnormal Functioning?
- Family-Social Treatments
- How Do Multicultural Theorists Explain Abnormal Functioning?
- Multicultural Treatments
- Assessing the Sociocultural Model
- Integrating the Models: The Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
- Summing Up
- Chapter 4 Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
- Clinical Assessment: How and Why Does the Client Behave Abnormally?
- Characteristics of Assessment Tools
- Clinical Interviews
- Clinical Tests
- Clinical Observations
- Diagnosis: Does the Client’s Syndrome Match a Known Disorder?
- Classification Systems
- DSM-5 and DSM-5-TR
- Is DSM-5-TR an Effective Classification System?
- Can Diagnosis and Labeling Cause Harm?
- Treatment: How Might the Client Be Helped?
- Treatment Decisions
- The Effectiveness of Treatment
- What Lies Ahead?
- Summing Up
- Chapter 5 Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- The Sociocultural Perspective: Societal and Multicultural Factors
- The Psychodynamic Perspective
- The Humanistic Perspective
- The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective
- The Biological Perspective
- Phobias
- Specific Phobias
- Agoraphobia
- What Causes Phobias?
- How Are Phobias Treated?
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- What Causes Social Anxiety Disorder?
- Treatments for Social Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- The Biological Perspective
- The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- What Are the Features of Obsessions and Compulsions?
- The Psychodynamic Perspective
- The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective
- The Biological Perspective
- Obsessive-Compulsive-Related Disorders
- Integrating the Models: The Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
- Summing Up
- Chapter 6 Disorders of Trauma and Stress
- Stress and Arousal: The Fight-or-Flight Response
- Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
- What Triggers Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders?
- Why Do People Develop Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders?
- How Do Clinicians Treat Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders?
- Dissociative Disorders
- Dissociative Amnesia
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- How Do Theorists Explain Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Identity Disorder?
- How Are Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Identity Disorder Treated?
- Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
- Getting a Handle on Trauma and Stress
- Summing Up
- Chapter 7 Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
- Unipolar Depression: The Depressive Disorders
- How Common Is Unipolar Depression?
- What Are the Symptoms of Depression?
- Diagnosing Unipolar Depression
- Stress and Unipolar Depression
- The Biological Model of Unipolar Depression
- The Psychological Models of Unipolar Depression
- The Sociocultural Model of Unipolar Depression
- Integrating the Models: The Developmental Psychopathology Perspective
- Bipolar Disorders
- What Are the Symptoms of Mania?
- Diagnosing Bipolar Disorders
- What Causes Bipolar Disorders?
- What Are the Treatments for Bipolar Disorders?
- Making Sense of All That Is Known
- Summing Up
- Chapter 8 Suicide
- What Is Suicide?
- How Is Suicide Studied?
- Patterns and Statistics
- What Triggers a Suicide?
- Stressful Events and Situations
- Mood and Thought Changes
- Alcohol and Other Drug Use
- Mental Disorders
- Modeling: The Contagion of Suicide
- Combination of Factors
- What Are the Underlying Causes of Suicide?
- The Psychodynamic View
- Durkheim’s Sociocultural View
- The Interpersonal View
- The Biological View
- Is Suicide Linked to Age?
- Children
- Adolescents
- The Elderly
- Treatment and Suicide
- What Treatments Are Used After Suicide Attempts?
- What Is Suicide Prevention?
- Do Suicide Prevention Programs Work?
- Psychological and Biological Insights Lag Behind
- Summing Up
- Chapter 9 Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms
- Factitious Disorder
- Conversion Disorder and Somatic Symptom Disorder
- Conversion Disorder
- Somatic Symptom Disorder
- What Causes Conversion and Somatic Symptom Disorders?
- How Are Conversion and Somatic Symptom Disorders Treated?
- Illness Anxiety Disorder
- Psychophysiological Disorders: Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions
- Traditional Psychophysiological Disorders
- New Psychophysiological Disorders
- Psychological Treatments for Physical Disorders
- Relaxation Training
- Biofeedback
- Meditation
- Hypnosis
- Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
- Support Groups and Emotion Expression
- Combination Approaches
- Expanding the Boundaries of Abnormal Psychology
- Summing Up
- Chapter 10 Eating Disorders
- Anorexia Nervosa
- The Clinical Picture
- Medical Problems
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Binges
- Compensatory Behaviors
- Bulimia Nervosa Versus Anorexia Nervosa
- Binge-Eating Disorder
- What Causes Eating Disorders?
- Psychodynamic Factors: Ego Deficiencies
- Cognitive-Behavioral Factors
- Depression
- Biological Factors
- Societal Pressures
- Family Environment
- Multicultural Factors: Racial and Ethnic Differences
- Multicultural Factors: Gender Differences
- How Are Eating Disorders Treated?
- Treatments for Anorexia Nervosa
- Treatments for Bulimia Nervosa
- Treatments for Binge-Eating Disorder
- Prevention of Eating Disorders: Wave of the Future
- Summing Up
- Chapter 11 Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
- Depressants
- Alcohol
- Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs
- Opioids
- Stimulants
- Cocaine
- Amphetamines
- Stimulant Use Disorder
- Caffeine
- Hallucinogens, Cannabis, and Combinations of Substances
- Hallucinogens
- Cannabis
- Combinations of Substances
- What Causes Substance Use Disorders?
- Sociocultural Views
- Psychodynamic Views
- Cognitive-Behavioral Views
- Biological Views
- The Developmental Psychopathology View
- How Are Substance Use Disorders Treated?
- Psychodynamic Therapies
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
- Biological Treatments
- Sociocultural Therapies
- Other Addictive Disorders
- Gambling Disorder
- Internet Use Disorder and Internet Gaming Disorder
- New Wrinkles to a Familiar Story
- Summing Up
- Chapter 12 Sexual Disorders and Gender Variations
- Sexual Dysfunctions
- Disorders of Desire
- Disorders of Excitement
- Disorders of Orgasm
- Disorders of Sexual Pain
- Treatments for Sexual Dysfunctions
- What Are the General Features of Sex Therapy?
- What Techniques Are Used to Treat Particular Dysfunctions?
- What Are the Current Trends in Sex Therapy?
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Fetishistic Disorder
- Transvestic Disorder
- Exhibitionistic Disorder
- Voyeuristic Disorder
- Frotteuristic Disorder
- Pedophilic Disorder
- Sexual Masochism Disorder
- Sexual Sadism Disorder
- Gender Variations
- Transgender Functioning
- Gender Dysphoria
- Personal Topics Draw Public Attention
- Summing Up
- Chapter 13 Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
- The Clinical Picture of Schizophrenia
- What Are the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?
- What Is the Course of Schizophrenia?
- Diagnosing Schizophrenia
- How Do Theorists Explain Schizophrenia?
- Biological Views
- Psychological Views
- Sociocultural Views
- Developmental Psychopathology View
- Psychological and Sociocultural Models Lag Behind
- Summing Up
- Chapter 14 Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Disorders
- Institutional Care in the Past
- Institutional Care Takes a Turn for the Better
- Milieu Therapy
- The Token Economy
- Antipsychotic Drugs
- How Effective Are Antipsychotic Drugs?
- The Unwanted Effects of First-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs
- Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs
- Psychotherapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
- Family Therapy
- Coordinated Specialty Care
- The Community Approach
- What Are the Features of Effective Community Care?
- How Has Community Treatment Failed?
- The Promise of Community Treatment
- An Important Lesson
- Summing Up
- Chapter 15 Personality Disorders
- “Odd” Personality Disorders
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- “Dramatic” Personality Disorders
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- “Anxious” Personality Disorders
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Multicultural Factors: Research Neglect
- Are There Better Ways to Classify Personality Disorders?
- The “Big Five” Theory of Personality and Personality Disorders
- “Personality Disorder – Trait Specified”: DSM-5’s Proposed Dimensional Approach
- Rediscovered, Then Reconsidered
- Summing Up
- Chapter 16 Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents
- Childhood and Adolescence
- Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- Separation Anxiety Disorder and Selective Mutism
- Treatments for Childhood Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive and Bipolar Disorders During Childhood
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
- What Are the Causes of Conduct Disorder?
- How Do Clinicians Treat Conduct Disorder?
- Elimination Disorders
- Enuresis
- Encopresis
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)
- Clinicians Discover Childhood and Adolescence
- Summing Up
- Chapter 17 Disorders of Aging and Cognition
- Old Age and Stress
- Depression in Later Life
- Anxiety Disorders in Later Life
- Substance Misuse in Later Life
- Psychotic Disorders in Later Life
- Disorders of Cognition
- Delirium
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurocognitive Disorders
- Issues Affecting the Mental Health of the Elderly
- Clinicians Discover the Elderly
- Summing Up
- Chapter 18 Law, Society, and the Mental Health Profession
- Law and Mental Health
- Psychology in Law: How Do Clinicians Influence the Criminal Justice System?
- Law in Psychology: How Do the Legislative and Judicial Systems Influence Mental Health Care?
- In What Other Ways Do the Clinical and Legal Fields Interact?
- What Ethical Principles Guide Mental Health Professionals?
- Mental Health, Business, and Economics
- Bringing Mental Health Services to the Workplace
- The Economics of Mental Health
- Technology and Mental Health
- The Person Within the Profession
- Within a Larger System
- Summing Up
- Glossary
- References
- Credits
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Back Cover
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