Introduction and Methods of Research | |
How Do We Define Abnormal Behavior? | |
Criteria for Determining Abnormality | |
Cultural Bases of Abnormal Behavior | |
Historical Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior | |
The Demonological Model | |
Origins of the Medical Model: In ldquo;Ill Humorrdquo | |
Medieval Times | |
WitchcraftAsylums | |
The Reform Movement and Moral Therapy | |
A Step Backward | |
The Community Mental Health Movement | |
The Exodus from State Hospitals | |
Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior | |
Research Methods in Abnormal Psychology | |
Description, Explanation, Prediction, and Control | |
The Objectives of Science | |
The Scientific Method | |
Ethics in Research | |
Naturalistic-Observation | |
The Correlation Method | |
The Experimental Method | |
Epidemiological Studies | |
Kinship Studies | |
Case Studies | |
Summing Up | |
Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior | |
The Biological Perspective | |
The Nervous System | |
Evaluating Biological Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior | |
The Psychological Perspective | |
Psychodynamic Models | |
Learning Models | |
Humanistic Models | |
Cognitive Models | |
The Sociocultural Perspective | |
Ethnicity and Mental Health | |
Evaluating the Sociocultural Perspective | |
The Biopsychosocial Perspective | |
The Diathesis-Stress Model | |
Evaluating the Biopsychosocial Perspective | |
The Case of Jessica- A Final Word | |
Summing Up | |
Classification and Assessment of Abnormal Behavior | |
How are Abnormal Behavior Patterns Classified? | |
TheDSMand Models of Abnormal Behavior | |
Standards of Assessment | |
Reliability | |
Validity | |
Methods of Assessment | |
The Clinical Interview | |
Psychological Tests | |
Neuropsychological Assessment | |
Behavioral Assessment | |
Cognitive Assessment | |
Physiological Measurement | |
Sociocultural and Ethnic Factors in Assessment | |
Summing Up | |
Methods of Treatment | |
Types of Professionals in the Helping Field | |
Psychotherapy | |
Psychodynamic Therapy | |
Behavior Therapy | |
Humanistic Therapy | |
Cognitive Therapy | |
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | |
Eclectic Therapy | |
Group, Family, and Couple Therapy | |
Evaluating Methods of Psychotherapy | |
Multicultural Issues in Psychotherapy | |
Biomedical Therapies | |
Drug Therapy | |
Ethnic Differences in Response to Psychotropic Medication | |
Electroconvulsive Th | |
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