Cengage Advantage Books: Abnormal Psychology and Life A Dimensional Approach

by Kearney, Christopher A.; Trull, Timothy J.

• ISBN13: 9781111344412
• ISBN10: 1111344418
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Chris Kearney and Tim Trull's ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE: A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH provides students with a concise, contemporary, science-based view of psychopathology that emphasizes the individual first and the disorder second. Through consistent pedagogy featuring clinical cases and real first-person narratives, the text illuminates our understanding that abnormal behavior--rather than being either present or absent--exists in everyone to some degree on a continuum from normal to pathological. By highlighting this widely accepted dimensional view--which places the behavior of an individual at the forefront of clinical assessment, prevention, definition, and treatment--the text's goal is to encourage students to become intelligent consumers of mental health information. With its emphasis on assessment and treatment as well as prevention, the book gives students the tools necessary to understand the precursors of abnormal behavior, overcome the stigma associated with it, and identify the real people classified as exhibiting it.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abnormal Psychology and Life: An Overview

Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology

Risk and Prevention of Mental Disorders

Diagnosis, Assessment, and Study of Mental Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

Mood Disorders and Suicide

Eating Disorders

Substance Related Disorders

Personality Disorders

Sexual Disorders and Dysfunctions and Gender Identity Disorder

Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders

Developmental and Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Cognitive Disorders

Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology

Appendix: Stress Related Problems

Glossary

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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