Abnormal Psychology, Global Edition

• Autore: Butcher James N
• Pubblicazione: , : Pearson Education UK, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 16th ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (785 pages)
• Altri autori: HooleyJill M MinekaSusan M
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Features -- Preface -- About the Authors -- 1 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology -- What Do We Mean by Abnormality? -- The DSM-5 and the Definition of Mental Disorder -- the WORLD around us Extreme Generosity or Pathological Behavior? -- Why Do We Need to Classify Mental Disorders? -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: What Is the DSM and Why Was It Revised? -- What Are the Disadvantages of Classification? -- How Can We Reduce Prejudicial Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill? -- the WORLD around us Mad, Sick, Head Nuh Good: Mental Illness and Stigma in Jamaica -- How Does Culture Affect What Is Considered Abnormal? -- Culture-Specific Disorders -- How Common Are Mental Disorders? -- Prevalence and Incidence -- Prevalence Estimates for Mental Disorders -- Treatment -- Mental Health Professionals -- Research Approaches in Abnormal Psychology -- Sources of Information -- Case Studies -- Self-Report Data -- Observational Approaches -- Forming and Testing Hypotheses -- Sampling and Generalization -- Internal and External Validity -- Criterion and Comparison Groups -- Research Designs -- Studying the World as It Is: Correlational Research Designs -- Measuring Correlation -- Statistical Significance -- Effect Size -- Meta-Analysis -- Correlations and Causality -- Retrospective Versus Prospective Strategies -- Manipulating Variables: The Experimental Method in Abnormal Psychology -- Studying the Efficacy of Therapy -- Single-Case Experimental Designs -- developments in RESEARCH: Do Magnets Help with Repetitive-Stress Injury? -- Animal Research -- UNRESOLVED issues Are We All Becoming Mentally Ill? The Expanding Horizons of Mental Disorder -- summary -- key terms -- 2 Views of Abnormal Behavior: Then and Now -- Historical Views of Abnormal Behavior -- Demonology, Gods, and Magic -- Hippocrates' Early Medical Concepts. ; developments in THINKING: Melancholia Through the Ages -- Early Philosophical Conceptions of Consciousness -- Later Greek and Roman Thought -- Early Views of Mental Disorders in China -- Views of Abnormality During the Middle Ages -- Toward Humanitarian Approaches -- The Resurgence of Scientific Questioning in Europe -- The Establishment of Early Asylums -- Humanitarian Reform -- Nineteenth-Century Views of the Causes and Treatment of Mental Disorders -- Changing Attitudes Toward Mental Health in the Early Twentieth Century -- the WORLD around us Chaining Mental Health Patients -- Mental Hospital Care in the Twentieth Century -- The Emergence of Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior -- Biological Discoveries: Establishing the Link Between the Brain and Mental Disorder -- The Development of a Classification System -- Development of the Psychological Basis of Mental Disorder -- developments in RESEARCH: The Search for Medications to Cure Mental Disorders -- The Evolution of the Psychological Research Tradition: Experimental Psychology -- UNRESOLVED issues Interpreting Historical Events -- summary -- key terms -- 3 Abnormal Behavior: Causes, Viewpoints, and Perspectives -- Causes and Risk Factors for Abnormal Behavior -- Necessary, Sufficient, and Contributory Causes -- Feedback and Bidirectionality in Abnormal Behavior -- Diathesis-Stress Models -- Viewpoints for Understanding the Causesof Abnormal Behavior -- The Biological Viewpoint and Biological Causal Factors -- Imbalances of Neurotransmitters and Hormones -- Genetic Vulnerabilities -- developments in THINKING: Nature, Nurture, and Psychopathology: A New Look at an Old Topic -- Temperament -- Brain Dysfunction and Neural Plasticity -- The Impact of the Biological Viewpoint -- The Psychological Viewpoints -- The Psychodynamic Perspectives -- The Behavioral Perspective. ; developments in THINKING: The Humanistic and Existential Perspectives -- The Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective -- What the Adoption of a Perspective Does and Does Not Do -- Psychological Causal Factors -- Early Deprivation or Trauma -- Inadequate Parenting Styles -- Marital Discord and Divorce -- Maladaptive Peer Relationships -- The Sociocultural Viewpoint -- Uncovering Sociocultural Factors Through Cross-Cultural Studies -- Sociocultural Causal Factors -- Low Socioeconomic Status and Unemployment -- Prejudice and Discrimination in Race, Gender, and Ethnicity -- the WORLD around us Culture and Attachment Relationships -- Social Change and Uncertainty -- Urban Stressors: Violence and Homelessness -- The Impact of the Sociocultural Viewpoint -- UNRESOLVED issues Theoretical Viewpoints and the Causes of Abnormal Behavior -- summary -- key terms -- 4 Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis -- The Basic Elements in Assessment -- The Relationship Between Assessment and Diagnosis -- Taking a Social or Behavioral History -- Ensuring Culturally Sensitive Assessment Procedures -- The Influence of Professional Orientation -- Reliability, Validity, and Standardization -- Trust and Rapport Between the Clinician and the Client -- Assessment of the Physical Organism -- The General Physical Examination -- The Neurological Examination -- The Neuropsychological Examination -- Psychosocial Assessment -- Assessment Interviews -- The Clinical Observation of Behavior -- Psychological Tests -- developments in PRACTICE: The Automated Practice: Use of the Computerin Psychological Testing -- The Case of Andrea C.: Experiencing Violence in the Workplace -- developments in PRaCTiCE: Computer-Based MMPI-2 Report for Andrea C. -- The Integration of Assessment Data -- Ethical Issues in Assessment -- Classifying Abnormal Behavior -- Differing Models of Classification. ; Formal Diagnostic Classification of Mental Disorders -- Criteria for Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia) -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Completion Does Not Assure Acceptance -- summary -- key terms -- 5 Stress and Physical and Mental Health -- What Is Stress? -- Stress and the DSM -- Factors Predisposing a Person to Stress -- Characteristics of Stressors -- Measuring Life Stress -- Resilience -- Stress and the Stress Response -- Biological Costs of Stress -- The Mind-Body Connection -- Understanding the Immune System -- Stress, Depression, and the Immune System -- stres and physical health -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Hypertension -- Coronary Heart Disease -- Risk and Causal Factors in Cardiovascular Disease -- the WORLD around us Racial Discrimination and Cardiovascular Health in African Americans -- Treatment of Stress-Related Physical Disorders -- Biological Interventions -- Psychological Interventions -- Stress and Mental Health -- Adjustment Disorder -- Adjustment Disorder Caused by Unemployment -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Changes to the Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD -- Acute Stress Disorder -- Clinical Description -- Prevalence of PTSD in the General Population -- Rates of PTSD After Traumatic Experiences -- Causal Factors in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Individual Risk Factors -- Sociocultural Factors -- Long-Term Effects of Posttraumatic Stress -- Prevention and Treatment of Stress Disorders -- Prevention -- the WORLD around us Does Playing Tetris After a Traumatic Event Reduce Flashbacks? -- Treatment for Stress Disorders -- Psychological Debriefing -- the WORLD around us Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment for PTSD in Military Personnel -- Challenges in Studying Disaster Victims -- Trauma and Physical Health. ; UNRESOLVED issues Why Is the Study of Trauma so Contentious? -- Why Is the Study of Trauma so Contentious? -- summary -- key terms -- 6 Mood Disorders and Suicide: Causal Factors, Theories, and Treatment -- Mood Disorders: An Overview -- Types of Mood Disorders -- Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder -- Criteria for Manic Episode -- The Prevalence of Mood Disorders -- Unipolar Depressive Disorders -- Other Forms of Depression -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Was It Wise to Drop the Bereavement Exclusion for Major Depression? -- developments in THINKING: A New DSM-5 Diagnosis: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder -- Dysthymic Disorder (Persistent Depressive Disorder) -- Criteria for Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia) -- Major Depressive Disorder -- Causal Factors in Unipolar Mood Disorders -- Biological Causal Factors -- Psychological Causal Factors -- developments in RESEARCH: Why Do Sex Differences in Unipolar Depression Emerge During Adolescence? -- Bipolar and Related Disorders -- Cyclothymic Disorder -- Criteria for Cyclothymic Disorder -- Bipolar Disorders (I and II) -- Causal Factors in Bipolar Disorders -- Biological Causal Factors -- Psychological Causal Factors -- Sociocultural Factors Affecting Unipolar and Bipolar Disorders -- Cross-Cultural Differences in Depressive Symptoms -- Cross-Cultural Differences in Prevalence -- Demographic Differences in the United States -- Treatments and Outcomes -- Pharmacotherapy -- Alternative Biological Treatments -- Psychotherapy -- Suicide: The Clinical Picture and the Causal Pattern -- Who Attempts and Who Commits Suicide? -- Suicide in Children -- Suicide in Adolescents and Young Adults -- Other Psychosocial Factors Associated with Suicide -- the WORLD around us Warning Signs for Student Suicide -- Biological Causal Factors -- Sociocultural Factors -- Suicidal Ambivalence. ; Communication of Suicidal Intent.
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• Titolo autorizzato: Abnormal Psychology, Global Edition
• ISBN: 1-292-06929-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154775203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II