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Abnormal psychology

(hbk.)

(hbk.)

0205167268

9780205167265

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Abnormal psychology

[Book]

15th ed. /

James N. Butcher, Susan Mineka, Jill M. Hooley

Boston :

Pearson,

c2013

xxviii, 625, [160] p. :

ill. (chiefly col.) ;

29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. R-1-R-86) and indexes

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 --

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 --

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

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

Psychiatry, Textbooks

Psychology, Pathological, Textbooks

Mental Disorders

Mentally Ill Persons

Butcher, James Neal,1933-

Hooley, Jill M

Mineka, Susan

20130116014946.0

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