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" Abnormal psychology "
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625114
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Butcher, James Neal,1933-
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Abnormal psychology
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15th ed. // James N. Butcher, Susan Mineka, Jill M. Hooley
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Boston :: Pearson,, c2013
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xxviii, 625, [160] p. :: ill. (chiefly col.) ;; 29 cm
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9780205167265
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: 0205167268
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Includes bibliographical references (p. R-1-R-86) and indexes
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Features -- Preface -- Abnormal Psychology: An Overview: -- What do we mean by abnormality?: -- DSM-5 and the definition of mental disorder -- World around us: -- Extreme generosity or pathological behavior? -- Why do we need to classify mental disorders? -- What are the disadvantages of classification? -- How can we reduce prejudicial attitudes toward the mentally ill? -- How does culture affect what is considered abnormal? -- Culture-specific disorders -- World around us: -- Mad, sick, head nuh good: mental health and stigma in Jamaica -- How Common Are Mental Disorders?: -- Prevalence and incidence -- Prevalence estimates for mental disorders -- Treatment -- Mental health professionals -- World around us: -- Mental health professionals -- Research approaches in abnormal psychology: -- Sources of information -- Case studies -- Self-report data -- Observational approaches -- Forming and testing hypotheses: -- Sampling and generalization -- Internal and external validity -- Criterion and comparison groups -- Research designs: -- Studying the world as it is: correlational research designs -- Measuring correlation -- Statistical significance -- Effect size -- Meta-analysis -- Correlations and causality -- Retrospective versus prospective strategies -- Manipulating variables: the experimental method in abnormal psychology -- Studying the efficacy of therapy -- Developments in research: -- Do magnets help with repetitive-stress injury? -- Single-case experimental designs -- Animal research -- Unresolved issues: -- Are we all becoming mentally ill? The expanding horizons of mental disorders -- Summary -- Key terms -- Historical And Contemporary Views Of Abnormal Behavior: -- Historical views of abnormal behavior: -- Demonology, gods, and magic -- Hippocrates' early medical concepts -- Developments in thinking: -- Melancholia through the ages -- Early philosophical conceptions of consciousness -- Later Greek And Roman thought -- Early views of mental disorders in China -- Views of abnormality during the middle ages -- Toward humanitarian approaches: -- Resurgence of scientific questioning in Europe -- Establishment of early asylums -- Humanitarian reform -- Nineteenth-century views of the causes and treatment of mental disorders -- Changing attitudes toward mental health in the early twentieth century -- Mental hospital care in the twenty-first century -- World around us: -- Changing mental health patients -- Emergence of contemporary views of abnormal behavior: -- Biological discoveries: establishing the link between the brain and mental disorder -- Development of a classification system -- Development of the psychological basis of mental disorder -- Developments in research: -- Search for medications to cure mental disorders -- Evolution of the psychological research tradition: experimental psychology -- Unresolved issues: -- Interpreting historical events -- Summary -- Key terms -- Causal Factors And Viewpoints: -- Causes and risk factors for abnormal behavior: -- Necessary, sufficient, and contributory causes -- Feedback and bidirectionality in abnormal behavior -- Diathesis-stress models -- Viewpoints for understanding the causes of abnormal behavior: -- Biological viewpoint and biological causal factors: -- Imbalances of neurotransmitters and hormones -- Developments in research: -- Neurotransmission and abnormal behavior -- Genetic vulnerabilities -- Developments in thinking: -- Nature, nurture, and psychopathology: a new look at an old topic -- Temperament -- Brain dysfunction and neural plasticity -- Impact of the biological viewpoint -- Psychological viewpoints: -- Psychodynamic perspectives -- Behavioral perspective -- Developments in thinking: -- Humanistic and existential perspectives -- Cognitive-behavioral perspective -- What the adoption of a perspective does and does not do -- Psychological causal factors: -- Early deprivation or trauma -- Inadequate parenting styles -- Marital discord and divorce -- Maladaptive peer relationships -- Sociocultural viewpoints: -- Uncovering sociocultural factors through cross-cultural studies -- World around us: -- Culture-bound syndromes -- Sociocultural causal factors: -- Low socioeconomic status and unemployment -- World around us: -- Culture and attachment relationships -- Prejudice and discrimination in race, gender, and ethnicity -- Social change and uncertainty -- Urban stressors: violence and homelessness -- Impact of the sociocultual viewpoint -- Unresolved issues: Theoretical viewpoints and the causes of abnormal behavior -- Summary -- Key terms -- Clinical Assessment And Diagnosis: -- Basic elements in assessment: -- Relationship between assessment and diagnosis -- Taking a social or behavioral history -- Ensuring culturally sensitive assessment procedures -- Influence of professional orientation -- Reliability, validity, and standardization -- Trust and rapport between the clinician and the client -- Assessment of the physical organism: -- General physical examination -- Neurological examination -- Neuropsychological examination -- Psychosocial assessment: -- Assessment interviews -- Clinical observation of behavior -- Psychological tests -- Developments in practice: -- Automated practice: use of the computer in psychological testing -- Case of Andrea C: experiencing violence in the workplace -- Developments in practice: -- Computer-based MMPI-2 report for Andrea C -- Integration of assessment data: -- Ethical issues in assessment -- Classifying abnormal behavior: -- Differing models of classification -- Formal diagnostic classification of mental disorders -- Developments in practice: -- Schedules for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry (SCAN) -- Unresolved issues: -- DSM-V: what comes next? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Stress And Physical And Mental Health: -- What is stress? -- Stress and the DSM -- Factors predisposing a person to stress -- Characteristics of stressors -- Measuring life stress -- Resilience -- Stress and the stress response: -- Biological costs of stress -- Mind-body connection -- Understanding the immune system -- World around us: -- Who catches a cold? -- Developments in research: -- Cross-talk between the brain and the immune system: the importance of cytokines -- Stress, depression, and the immune system -- Developments in research -- Is holding a grudge bad for your health? -- Stress and physical health: -- Cardiovascular disease: -- Hypertension -- Coronary heart disease -- Risk and causal factors in cardiovascular disease -- World around us: -- Racial discrimination and cardiovascular health in African Americans -- Treatment of stress-related physical disorders: -- Biological interventions -- Psychological interventions -- Psychological reactions to stress: --Adjustment disorder -- Adjustment disorder caused by unemployment -- Adjustment disorder caused by divorce or separation -- Posttraumatic stress disorder: -- World around us: -- Anticipating DSM-5: a proposed new diagnostic category -- World around us: -- Trauma of incredible proportions -- Acute stress disorder -- Clinical description -- Prevalence of PTSD in the general population -- Rates of PTSD after traumatic experiences -- Causal factors in posttraumatic stress disorder -- Individual risk factors -- Sociocultural factors -- Long-term effects of posttraumatic stress -- Prevention and treatment of stress disorders: -- Prevention -- World around us: -- Does playing Tetris after a traumatic event reduce flashbacks? -- Treatment for stress disorders -- Psychological debriefing -- Developments in practice: -- Battlemind training in the U S military -- Challenges in studying disaster victims -- World around us: -- Virtual reality exposure treatment for PTSD in military personnel -- Trauma and physical health -- Unresolved issues: -- Will DSM-5 remedy problems with the diagnostic criteria for PTSD? -- Summary -- Key terms --
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Panic, Anxiety, And Their Disorders: -- Fear and anxiety response patterns: -- Fear -- Anxiety -- Overview of the anxiety disorders and their commonalities: -- Specific phobias: -- Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences psychological causal factors -- Biological causal factors -- Treatments -- Social phobias: -- Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences -- Psychological causal factors -- Biological causal factors -- Treatments -- Panic disorder with and without agoraphobia: -- Panic disorder -- Agoraphobia -- Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences -- Comorbidity with other disorders -- Timing of a first panic attack -- Biological causal factors -- Psychological causal factors -- Developments in research: -- Nocturnal panic attacks -- Treatments -- Developments in practice: -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder -- Generalized anxiety disorder: -- Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences -- Comorbidity with other disorders -- Psychological causal -- Biological causal factors -- Treatments -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: -- Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences -- Comorbidity with other disorders -- Psychological causal factors -- Biological causal factors -- Treatments -- Sociocultural causal factors for all anxiety disorders: -- Cultural differences in sources of worry -- Taijin Kyofusho -- Unresolved issues: -- Compulsive hoarding: is it a subtype of OCD, or is it a separate disorder? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Mood Disorders And Suicide: -- Mood disorders: an overview: -- Types of mood disorders -- Prevalence of mood disorders -- Unipolar mood disorders: -- Depressions that are not mood disorders -- Dysthymic disorder -- Major depressive disorder -- Causal factors in unipolar mood disorders: -- Biological causal factors -- Psychological causal factors -- Developments in research: -- Why do sex differences in unipolar depression emerge during adolescence? -- Developments in thinking: -- Comobidity of anxiety and mood disorders -- Bipolar disorders: -- Cyclothymic disorder -- Bipolar disorder (I and II) -- Causal factors in bipolar disorders: -- Biological causal factors -- Psychological causal factors -- Sociocultural factors affecting unipolar and bipolar disorders: -- Cross-cultural differences in depressive symptoms -- Cross-cultural differences in prevalence -- Demographic differences in the United States -- Treatments and outcomes: -- Pharmacotherapy -- Alternative biological treatments -- Psychotherapy -- Suicide: -- Clinical picture and the causal pattern: -- Who attempts and who commits suicide? -- Suicide in children -- Suicide in adolescents and young adults -- World around us: -- Warning signs for student suicide -- Other psychosocial factors associated with suicide -- Biological causal factors -- Sociocultural factors -- Suicidal ambivalence: -- Communication of suicidal intent -- Suicide notes -- Suicide prevention and intervention: -- Treatment of mental disorders -- Crisis intervention -- Focus on high-risk groups and other measures -- Unresolved issues: -- Is there a right to die? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Somatoform And Dissociative Disorders: -- What are somatoform disorders?: -- Hypochondriasis -- Somatization disorder -- World around us: -- Somatoform disorders: DSM-5 proposed revisions -- Pain disorder -- Conversion disorder -- Distinguishing somatization, pain , and conversion disorders from malingering and factitious disorder -- World around us: -- Factitious disorder by proxy (munchausen's syndrome by proxy) -- Body dysmorphic disorder -- What are dissociative disorders?: -- Depersonalization disorder -- Dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue -- Dissociative identity disorder (DID) -- Developments in thinking: -- Should conversion disorder be classified as a dissociative disorder? -- World around us: -- DID, schizophrenia, and split personality: clearing up the confusion -- Sociocultural factors in dissociative disorders -- Treatment and outcomes in dissociative disorders -- World around us: -- Dissociative disorders: proposed revisions for DSM-5 -- Unresolved issues: -- DID and the reality of 'recovered memories' -- Summary -- Key terms -- Eating Disorders And Obesity: -- Eating disorders: -- Clinical aspects of eating orders: -- Anorexia nervosa -- World around us: -- Anticipating DSM-5: proposed changes to the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa -- Bulimia nervosa -- Other forms of eating disorders -- Age of onset and gender differences -- Prevalence of eating disorders -- World around us: -- Eating disorders in men -- Medical complications of eating disorders -- Course and outcome -- Diagnostic crossover -- Association of eating disorders with other forms of psychopathology -- Eating disorders across cultures -- World around us: -- Ethic identity and disordered eating -- Risk and causal factors in eating disorders: -- Biological factors -- Sociocultural factors -- Family influences -- Individual risk factors -- Treatment of eating disorders: -- Treatment of anorexia nervosa -- World around us: -- Eating disorders and the internet -- Treatment of bulimia nervosa -- Treatment of binge-eating disorder -- World around us: -- Transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders -- Obesity: -- Problem of obesity: -- Medical issues -- Definition and prevalence -- Weight stigma -- Obesity and the DSM -- Risk and causal factors in obesity: -- Role of genes -- World around us: -- Do negative messages about being overweight encourage overweight people to eat more or less? -- Hormones involved in appetite and weight regulation -- Sociocultural influences -- Family influences -- Stress and "comfort food" -- Pathways to obesity -- Treatment of obesity: -- Lifestyle modifications -- Medications -- Bariatric surgery -- Importance of prevention -- Unresolved issues: -- Will DSM-5 solve the problem of eating disorder NOS? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Personality Disorders: -- Clinical features of personality disorders: -- Difficulties doing research on personality disorders: -- Difficulties in diagnosing personality disorders -- Difficulties in studying the causes of personality disorders -- Cluster A personality disorders: -- Paranoid personality disorder -- Schizoid personality disorder -- Schizotypal personality disorder -- Cluster B personality disorders: -- Histrionic personality disorder -- Narcissistic personality disorder -- Antisocial personality disorder -- Borderline personality disorder -- Cluster C personality disorders: -- Avoidant personality disorder -- Dependent personality disorder -- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder -- General sociocultural causal factors for personality disorders -- Treatments and outcomes for personality disorders: -- Adapting therapeutic techniques to specific personality disorders -- Treating borderline personality disorder -- Treating other personality disorders -- Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy: -- Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder -- Clinical picture in psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder -- Causal factors in psychopathy and antisocial personality -- World around us: -- Successful psychopaths -- Developmental perspective on psychopathy and antisocial personality -- Treatments and outcomes in psychopathic and antisocial personality -- Developments in practice: -- Prevention of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorders -- Unresolved issues: -- DSM-5: moving toward a dimensional system of classification -- Summary -- Key terms -- Substance-Related Disorders: -- Alcohol abuse and dependence: -- Prevalence, comorbidity, and demographics of alcohol abuse and dependence -- Clinical picture of alcohol abuse and dependence -- Developments in research: -- Fetal alcohol syndrome: how much drinking is too much? -- Biological causal factors in the abuse of and dependence on alcohol -- Psychosocial causal factors in alcohol abuse and dependence -- World
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around us: -- Binge drinking in college -- Sociocultural causal factors -- Treatment of alcohol-related disorders -- Drug abuse and dependence: -- Opium and its derivatives (narcotics) -- Cocaine and amphetamines (stimulants) -- Methamphetamine -- Barbiturates (sedatives) -- Hallucinogens: LSD and related drugs -- Ecstasy -- Marijuana -- World around us: -- Should marijuana be marketed and sold openly as a medication? -- Stimulants: caffeine and nicotine -- World around us: -- Pathological gambling -- Unresolved issues: -- Exchanging addictions: is this an effective treatment approach? -- Summary -- Key terms --
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Sexual Variants, Abuse, And Dysfunctions: -- Sociocultural influences on sexual practices and standards: -- Case 1: Degeneracy and abstinence theory -- Case 2: Ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia -- Case 3: Homosexuality and American psychiatry -- Sexual and gender variants: -- Paraphilias -- Causal factors and treatments for Paraphilias -- Developments in research: -- Hypersexual disorder -- Gender identity disorders -- Sexual abuse: -- Childhood sexual abuse -- Pedophilia -- Incest -- Rape -- Treatment and recidivism of sex offenders -- World around us: -- Megan's law -- Sexual dysfunctions: -- Sexual desire disorders -- Sexual arousal disorders -- Orgasmic disorders -- Sexual pain disorders -- Unresolved issues: -- How harmful is childhood sexual abuse? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Schizophrenia And Other Psychotic Disorders: -- Schizophrenia -- Origins of the schizophrenia construct epidemiology -- Clinical picture: -- Delusions -- Hallucinations -- World around us: -- Stress, caffeine, and hallucinations -- Disorganized speech and behavior -- Positive and negative symptoms -- Subtypes of schizophrenia -- Other psychotic disorders -- World around us: -- Anticipating DSM-5: subtypes of schizophrenia -- Risk and causal factors: -- Genetic factors -- World around us: -- Genain quadruplets -- Prenatal exposures -- Genes and environment in schizophrenia: a synthesis -- Neurodevelopmental perspective -- Structural and functional brain abnormalities -- Psychosocial and cultural factors -- Diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia -- Treatments and outcomes: -- Clinical outcome -- Pharmacological approaches -- World around us: -- Using estrogen to help patients with schizophrenia -- Psychosocial approaches -- World around us: -- Beautiful mind -- Unresolved issues: -- What is the best way to prevent schizophrenia? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Neurocognitive Disorders: -- Brain impairment in adults: -- Clinical signs of brain damage -- World around us: -- Anticipating DSM-5: New category, new diagnoses -- Diffuse versus focal damage -- Neurocognitive/psychopathology interaction -- Delirium: -- Clinical picture -- Treatments and outcomes -- Dementia: -- Parkinson's disease -- Huntington's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- Developments in research: -- Depression increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease -- World around us: -- Exercising your way to a better brain? -- Dementia from HIV-1 infection -- Vascular dementia -- Amnestic disorder: -- Disorders involving head injury: -- Clinical picture -- World around us: -- Can thrill rides cause brain damage? -- World around us: -- Brain damage in professional athletes -- Treatments and outcomes -- Unresolved issues: -- Should healthy people use cognitive enhancers? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Disorders Of Childhood And Adolesence: -- Maladaptive behavior in different life periods: -- Varying clinical pictures -- Special psychological vulnerabilities of young children -- Classification of childhood and adolescent disorders -- Common disorders of childhood: -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder -- Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: -- Anxiety disorders of childhood and adolescence -- Childhood depression and bipolar disorder -- Developments in research: -- Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents: is there an epidemic? -- Symptom disorders: enuresis, encopresis, sleepwalking, and tics: -- Functional enuresis -- Encopresis -- Sleepwalking (somnambulism) -- Tic disorders -- Pervasive developmental disorders: -- Autism -- Developments in practice: -- Can virtual reality video games improve treatment of children with pervasive developmental disorders? -- Asperger's disorder -- Learning disabilities: -- Causal factors in learning disabilities -- Treatments and outcomes -- Mental retardation: -- Levels of mental retardation -- Causal factors in mental retardation -- Organic retardation syndromes -- Treatments, outcomes, and prevention -- Planning better programs to help children and adolescents: -- Special factors associated with treatment of children and adolescents -- World around us: -- Impact of child abuse on psychological adjustment -- Family therapy as a means of helping children -- Child advocacy programs -- Unresolved issues: -- Can society deal with delinquent behavior? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Therapy: -- Overview of treatment: -- Why do people seek therapy? -- World around us: -- Why are men so reluctant to enter therapy? -- Who provides psychotherapeutic services? -- Therapeutic relationship -- Measuring success in psychotherapy: -- Objectifying and quantifying change -- Developments in research: -- Using brain activation to measure therapeutic change -- Would change occur anyway? -- Can therapy be harmful? -- World around us: -- When therapy harms -- What therapeutic approaches should be used?: -- Evidence-based treatment -- Medication or psychotherapy? -- Combined treatments -- World around us: -- We have a pill for that -- Psychosocial approaches to treatment: -- Behavior therapy -- Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy -- Humanistic-experiential therapies -- Psychodynamic therapies -- Couple and family therapy -- Eclecticism and integration -- Sociocultural perspectives: -- Social values and psychotherapy -- Psychotherapy and cultural diversity -- Biological approaches to treatment: -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Antidepressant drugs -- Antianxiety drugs -- Lithium and other mood-stabilizing drugs -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Neurosurgery -- World around us: -- Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression -- Unresolved issues: -- Is there bias in the reporting of drug trials? -- Summary -- Key terms -- Contemporary And Legal Issues In Abnormal Psychology: -- Perspectives on prevention: -- Universal interventions -- Selective interventions -- Indicated interventions -- Inpatient mental health treatment in contemporary society: -- Mental hospital as a therapeutic community aftercare programs -- Developments in thinking -- Residential treatment programs: Do they help troubled children and adolescents? -- Deinstitutionalization -- World around us: -- Jails and prisons: serving as mental hospitals again -- Controversial legal issues and the mentally ill: -- Civil commitment -- World around us: -- Important court decisions for patient rights -- Assessment of 'dangerousness' -- World around us: -- Controversial not guilty pleas: can altered mind states or personality disorder limit responsibility for a criminal act? -- Insanity defense -- World around us: -- Does having mental health problems result in convicted felons being returned to prison after being released? -- Competence to stand trial -- Organized efforts for mental health: -- U S efforts for mental health -- International efforts for mental health -- Challenges for the future: -- Need for planning -- Individual's contribution -- Unresolved issues: -- HMOs and mental health care -- Summary -- Key terms -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Name index -- Subject index
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Book Description: The most authoritative and comprehensive text in Abnormal Psychology. The esteemed author team of Jim Butcher, Sue Mineka, and Jill Hooley offers students the most thoroughly researched, engaging, and up-to-date explanation of psychopathology, creating a learning experience that provokes thought and increases awareness. By adopting a compressive bio-psycho-social perspective, this text takes students to levels of understanding that other books do not offer. Hundreds of new references have been added to reflect the ever-changing field of abnormal psychology. This 15th edition includes specialized feature boxes highlighting many of the changes that are expected in the upcoming revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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Psychology, Pathological, Textbooks
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Psychiatry, Textbooks
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Mental Disorders
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Mentally Ill Persons
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RC454.B87 2013
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Mineka, Susan
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Hooley, Jill M
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