Current Directions in Abnormal Psychology

by Association for Psychological Science (APS); Durbin, C. Emily

• ISBN13: 9780205597413
• ISBN10: 0205597416
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This updated and exciting reader includes over 25 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 perspective-from a reliable source-about todayrs"s most current and pressing issues in abnormal psychology.

Author Biography

C. Emily Durbin is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University and the Kovler Scholar of The Family Institute at Northwestern University.  She received her B.S. from the University of Evansville in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2002.  Her research focuses on the developmental psychopathology of mood disorders, and the development of emotions and temperament traits in children.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
General Issues in Understanding, Modeling, and Measuring Psychopathology	p. 3
Psychology and Neuroscience: Making Peace (Vol. 9, No. 6, 2000, 212-215)	p. 5
Schizotypy: An Organizing Framework for Schizophrenia Research (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2006, 162-166)	p. 12
Understanding Psychopathology: Melding Behavior Genetics, Personality, and Quantitative Psychology to Develop an Empirically Based Model (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2006, 113-117)	p. 21
A New Unified Treatment Approach for Emotional Disorders Based on Emotion Science (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2006, 146-150)	p. 29
As Others See Us: Clinical and Research Implications of Cross-Informant Correlations for Psychopathology (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006, 94-98)	p. 37
Critical Thinking Questions	p. 44
Modeling the Influence of Stress and Environmental Factors on Psychopathology	p. 45
Maternal Care and Individual Differences in Defensive Responses (Vol. 14, No. 5, 2005, 229-233)	p. 47
Marital Conflict: Correlates, Structure, and Context (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2003, 23-27)	p. 55
Do Psychiatric Patients Do Better Clinically if They Live with Certain Kinds of Families? (Vol. 13, No. 5, 2004, 202-205)	p. 63
Adaptation and the Set-Point Model of Subjective Well-Being: Does Happiness Change After Major Life Events? (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, 75-79)	p. 69
Neighborhood Characteristics and Depression: An Examination of Stress Processes (Vol. 15, No. 4, 2006, 188-192)	p. 77
Critical Thinking Questions	p. 84
The Intersection of Biology and Psychology	p. 85
The Psychobiology of Stress (Vol. 12, No. 4, 2003, 124-129)	p. 87
Turning Up the Heat: Inflammation as a Mechanism Linking Chronic Stress, Depression, and Heart Disease (Vol. 15, No. 6, 2006, 269-272)	p. 96
Plasticity for Affective Neurocircuitry: How the Environment Affects Gene Expression (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2007, 1-5)	p. 103
The Interplay Between Genotypes and Family Relationships: Reframing Concepts of Development and Prevention (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, 139-143)	p. 111
Critical Thinking Questions	p. 118
Internalizing Disorders (Anxiety, Depression, and Eating Disorders)	p. 121
The Malicious Serpent: Snakes as a Prototypical Stimulus for an Evolved Module of Fear (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2003, 5-9)	p. 123
Facilitation of Extinction of Conditioned Fear by D-Cycloserine: Implications for Psychotherapy (Vol. 14, No. 4, 2005, 214-219)	p. 130
Who Develops Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? (Vol. 13, No. 4, 2004, 169-172)	p. 140
Resilience in the Face of Potential Trauma (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, 135-138)	p. 148
Recovering Memories of Trauma: A View from the Laboratory (Vol. 12, No. 1, 2003, 32-35)	p. 155
Mood and Emotion in Major Depression (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2005, 167-170)	p. 162
Molecular Genetic Studies of Eating Disorders: Current Status and Future Directions (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2007, 37-41)	p. 170
Critical Thinking Questions	p. 178
Externalizing Disorders (Substance and Conduct Disorder)	p. 179
Risk Taking in Adolescence: New Perspectives from Brain and Behavioral Science (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, 55-59)	p. 181
Implicit Cognition and Addiction (Vol. 15, No. 6, 2006, 292-296)	p. 189
Pharmacologic and Behavioral Withdrawal from Addictive Drugs (Vol. 15, No. 5, 2006, 232-236)	p. 197
Stress, Motivation, and Drug Addiction (Vol. 13, No. 1, 2004, 33-35)	p. 205
Critical Thinking Questions	p. 211
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