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This new and exciting reader includes over 20 articles that have been carefully selected for the undergraduate audience, and taken from the very accessibleCurrent Directions in Psychological Sciencejournal. These timely, cutting-edge articles allow instructors to bring their students real-world perspectivefrom a reliable sourceabout todayrs"s most current and pressing issues in abnormal psychology.

General and Theoretical Issues: Etiology, Treatment and Classification
Psychology and neuroscience: Making peace
Evolutionary psychology: The wheat and the chaff
Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean
Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality
Feedback interventions: Toward the understanding of a double-edged sword
Computer-and internet-based psychotherapy interventions
Depression, Anxiety, Ptsd, Dissociative Disorders and Stress
Gender differences in depression
The clustering and contagion of suicide
The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear
Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia
Recovering memories of trauma: A view from the laboratory
Stress, positive emotion, and coping
Personality Disorders, Eating Disorders, Substance Use, Sexual Disorders, Schizophrenia and Dementia
Self-esteem, narcissism and aggression: Does violence result from low self-esteem or from threatened egotism?
Thin-ideal internalization: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology
Behavior genetics: What's new? What's next?
Human sexuality: How do men and women differ?
Will they do it again? Predicting sex-offense recidivism
Schizophrenia: A neurodevelopmental perspective
Cognition in schizophrenia: Does working memory work?
Cognitive activity and risk of Alzheimer's disease
Childhood Disorders, Life Cycle Transitions, and Mental Health and The Law
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults: Implications for theories of diagnosis
Marital conflict: Correlates, structure and context
Emotion in the Second Half of Life
Psychology and aging: Enhancing the lives of an aging population
A typology of men who are violent toward their female Partners: Making sense of the heterogeneity in husband violence
Violence against stepchildren
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