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Cover -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Abnormal Behavior -- Overview -- Recognizing the Presence of a Disorder -- Defining Abnormal Behavior -- Harmful Dysfunction -- Mental Health Versus Absence of Disorder -- Culture and Diagnostic Practice -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Revising an Imperfect Manual -- Critical Thinking matters: Is Sexual Addiction a Meaningful Concept? -- Who Experiences Abnormal Behavior? -- Frequency in and Impact on Community Populations -- Cross-Cultural Comparisons -- The Mental Health Professions -- Psychopathology in Historical Context -- The Greek Tradition in Medicine -- The Creation of the Asylum -- Worcester Lunatic Hospital: A Model Institution -- Lessons from the History of Psychopathology -- Methods for the Scientific Study of Mental Disorders -- The Uses and Limitations of Case Studies -- Research methods: Who Must Provide Scientific Evidence? -- Clinical Research Methods -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 2: Paradigms and Etiology of Abnormal Behavior -- Overview -- Brief Historical Perspective -- The Biological Paradigm -- The Psychodynamic Paradigm -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Diagnosis and Causes of Mental Disorders -- The Cognitive-Behavioral Paradigm -- The Humanistic Paradigm -- The Problem with Paradigms -- Systems Theory -- Holism -- Causality -- Research methods: Correlations: Does a Psychology Major Make You Smarter? -- Developmental Psychopathology -- Biological Factors -- Neuron and Neurotransmitters -- Neurotransmitters and Psychopathology -- Mind-Body Dualism -- Major Brain Structures -- Cerebral Hemispheres -- Psychophysiology -- Behavior Genetics -- Psychological Factors -- Human Nature -- Critical Thinking matters: Do Vaccinations Cause Autism? -- Temperament -- Emotions.
Learning and Cognition -- The Sense of Self -- Stages of Development -- Social Factors -- Close Relationships -- Gender and Gender Roles -- Prejudice, Poverty, and Society -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 3: Therapeutic Techniques for Psychological Disorders -- Overview -- Four Views of Frances -- Biological Treatments -- Psychopharmacology -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Diagnosis and Treatment -- Electroconvulsive Therapy -- Psychosurgery -- Psychodynamic Psychotherapies -- Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Ego Analysis -- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy -- Cognitive-Behavior Therapy -- Systematic Desensitization -- Other Exposure Therapies -- Aversion Therapy -- Contingency Management -- Research methods: The Experiment: Does Treatment Cause Improvement? -- Social Skills Training -- Cognitive Techniques -- Beck's Cognitive Therapy -- Rational-Emotive Therapy -- Third-Wave" CBT -- Humanistic Therapies -- Client-Centered Therapy -- A Means, Not an End? -- Research on Psychotherapy -- Does Psychotherapy Work? -- Critical Thinking matters: Are All Therapies Created Equal? -- The Allegiance Effect -- Psychotherapy Process Research -- Ethnic Minorities in Psychotherapy -- Couple, Family, and Group Therapy -- Couple Therapy -- Family Therapy -- Group Therapy -- Prevention -- Specific Treatments for Specific Disorders -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 4: Classification, Diagnosis and Clinical Assessment of Abnormal Behavior -- Overview -- Basic Issues in Classification -- Categories Versus Dimensions -- From Description to Theory -- Classifying Abnormal Behavior -- The DSM-5 System -- Labels and Stigma -- Criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Culture and Classification -- Evaluating Classification Systems -- Reliability.
Research methods: Reliability: Agreement Regarding Diagnostic Decisions -- Validity -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Scientific Progress or Diagnostic Fads? -- Problems and Limitations of the DSM-5 System -- Basic Issues in Assessment -- Purposes of Clinical Assessment -- Assumptions About Consistency of Behavior -- Evaluating the Usefulness of Assessment Procedures -- Critical Thinking matters: The Barnum Effect and Assessment Feedback -- Psychological Assessment Procedures -- Interviews -- Observational Procedures -- Personality Tests and Self-Report Inventories -- Projective Personality Tests -- Biological Assessment Procedures -- Brain Imaging Techniques -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 5: Causes of Mood Disorders and Suicide -- Overview -- Symptoms -- Emotional Symptoms -- Cognitive Symptoms -- Somatic Symptoms -- Behavioral Symptoms -- Other Problems Commonly Associated with Depression -- Diagnosis -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Depression or Grief Following a Major Loss? -- Criteria for Major Depressive Episode -- Criteria for Diagnosis of Manic Episode -- Course and Outcome -- Depressive Disorders -- Bipolar Disorders -- Frequency -- Incidence and Prevalence -- Risk for Mood Disorders Across the Life Span -- Gender Differences -- Cross-Cultural Differences -- Causes -- Social Factors -- Psychological Factors -- Biological Factors -- Integration of Social, Psychological, and Biological Factors -- Research methods: Analogue Studies: Do Rats Get Depressed, and Why? -- Treatment -- Depressive Disorders -- Cognitive Therapy -- Bipolar Disorders -- Critical Thinking matters: Do Antidepressant Drugs Cause Violent Behavior? -- Electroconvulsive Therapy -- Seasonal Mood Disorders -- Suicide -- Classification of Suicide -- Frequency of Suicide -- Causes of Suicide -- Common Elements of Suicide.
Treatment of Suicidal People -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 6: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Overview -- Symptoms of Anxiety Disorders -- Anxiety -- Excessive Worry -- Panic Attacks -- Phobias -- Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders -- Criteria for Panic Disorder -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Splitting Up the Anxiety Disorders -- Course and Outcome -- Frequency of Anxiety Disorders -- Prevalence -- Comorbidity -- Gender Differences -- Anxiety Disorders Across the Life Span -- Cross-Cultural Comparisons -- Causes of Anxiety Disorders -- Adaptive and Maladaptive Fears -- Social Factors -- Psychological Factors -- Biological Factors -- Treatment of Anxiety Disorders -- Psychological Interventions -- Biological Interventions -- Research methods: Statistical Significance: When Differences Matter -- Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders -- Symptoms of OCD -- Diagnosis of OCD and Related Disorders -- Course and Outcome of OCD -- Frequency of OCD and Related Disorders -- Causes of OCD -- Treatment of OCD -- Critical Thinking matters: Can a Strep Infection Trigger OCD in Children? -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 7: Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, and Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Overview -- Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders -- Symptoms of ASD and PTSD -- Diagnosis of ASD and PTSD -- Criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Criteria for Acute Stress Disorder -- The Trauma of Sexual Assault -- Frequency of Trauma, PTSD, and ASD -- Causes of PTSD and ASD -- Prevention and Treatment of ASD and PTSD -- Dissociative Disorders -- Hysteria and the Unconscious -- Critical Thinking matters: Recovered Memories? -- Symptoms of Dissociative Disorders -- Diagnosis of Dissociative Disorders.
Frequency of Dissociative Disorders -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: More on Diagnostic Fads -- Causes of Dissociative Disorders -- Research methods: Retrospective Reports: Remembering the Past -- Treatment of Dissociative Disorders -- Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Symptoms of Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Diagnosis of Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Criteria for Illness Anxiety Disorder -- Frequency of Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Causes of Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Treatment of Somatic Symptom Disorders -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 8: Stress, Health and Coping -- Overview -- Defining Stress -- Stress as a Life Event -- Stress as Appraisal of Life Events -- Symptoms of Stress -- Tend and Befriend: The Female Stress Response? -- Psychophysiological Responses to Stress -- Coping -- Health Behavior -- Critical Thinking matters: Resilience -- Illness as a Cause of Stress -- Diagnosis of Stress and Physical Illness -- Thinking Critically about DSM-5: Is the Descriptive Approach Too Literal Sometimes? -- Psychological Factors and Some Familiar Illnesses -- Cancer -- Criteria for Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions -- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) -- Pain Disorder -- Sleep-Wake Disorders -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Symptoms of CVD -- Diagnosis of CVD -- Frequency of CVD -- Causes of CVD -- Research methods: Longitudinal Studies: Lives over Time -- Prevention and Treatment of CVD -- Getting Help -- Summary -- The Big Picture -- Key Terms -- Chapter 9: Personality Disorders: Types, Causes and Treatment -- Overview -- Symptoms -- Social Motivation -- Cognitive Perspectives Regarding Self and Others -- Temperament and Personality Traits -- Context and Personality -- Diagnosis -- Cluster A: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal Personality Disorders.
Critical Thinking matters: Can Personality Disorders Be Adaptive?.
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