Differentiating normal and abnormal personality / / Steven Strack, editor

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer Pub., 2006
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (559 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2/8
• Soggetto topico: Personality tests; Personality disorders - Diagnosis; Personality assessment
• Altri autori: StrackStephen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Contributors; Foreword by Auke Tellegen; Introduction by Stephen Strack; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Millon's Evolutionary Model for Unifying the Study of Normal and Abnormal Personality; 2 Psychopathology from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model; 3 Differentiating Personality Deviance, Normality, and Well-Being by the Seven-Factor Psychobiological Model; 4 Interpersonal Theory and the Interpersonal Circumplex: Evolving Perspectives on Normal and Abnormal Personality; 5 Cognitive Theory of Personality and Personality Disorders ; 6 Psychobiological Models and Issues 7 Differentiating Normal and Abnormal Personality from the Perspective of the DSM; Part 2: Methodology; 8 Problems and Pitfalls in Designing Research on Normal-Abnormal Personality; 9 Principles of Exploratory Factor Analysis; 10 Latent Variable Modeling: Representing the Structural Continuity and Discontinuity of Normal and Abnormal Personality; 11 Methods for Understanding Genetic and Environmental Influences in Normal and Abnormal Personality; 12 Taxometrics; Part 3: Measurement and Assessment; 13 Assessment of Maladaptive Personality Traits ; 14 Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Personality with the MMPI-215 Interpersonal Circumplex Measures; 16 The Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP) Approach to Personality Disorder; 17 The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): A Dimensional Measure of Traits Relevant to Personality and Personality Pathology; 18 The Personality Assessment Inventory and the Measurement of Normal and Abnormal Personality Constructs; 19 Rorschach Assessment of Normal and Abnormal Personality; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: With graduate students and professionals new to the field in mind, this book provides information about the central issues that are being addressed by researchers and clinicians in the realm of normal-abnormal personality today. In addition, it provides essential terminology, ideas, and methods that are unique to the field at large as well as basic tools needed to become a participant in normal-abnormal psychology. Key Features: * Seven influential models of personality and psychopathology * Four statistical methods for use in taxonomy, diagnosis, similarities and differences between normal
• Titolo autorizzato: Differentiating normal and abnormal personality
• ISBN: 1-280-75308-0; 9786610753086; 0-8261-3207-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816401903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II