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Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach (Print on Demand)

Author(s): Christopher Kearney | Timothy Trull

ISBN: 9788131521007

1st Edition

India Release: 2013

₹1490

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 596

Trim Size: 279x216 mm

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'ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE: A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH provides students with a concise, contemporary, science-based view of psychopathology that emphasizes the individual first. Through consistent pedagogy featuring clinical cases and real first-person narratives, the text illuminates our understanding that abnormal behavior can be viewed along a continuum. By highlighting this widely accepted dimensional view?which places the behavior of an individual at the forefront of clinical definition, assessment, and treatment?the text's goal is to foster personal relevance for students and encourage them to become intelligent consumers of mental health information. The book also gives students a comprehensive understanding of the features and epidemiologies, risk factors and prevention, assessment and treatment, and long term prognosis and associated stigma of mental disorders.

"Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach" covers features, assessment tools, and treatments of main disorders while emphasizing seeing mental health clients as real people
Unique chapters include risk factors and prevention, and a "Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology"
Disorder chapters include a continuum that shows varying degrees of a disorder
Personal Narratives give first-hand accounts of living with psychological disorders
Additional features such as Case Studies, DSM-IV-TR tables, Interim Summaries, and Review Questions aid student learning

1. Abnormal Psychology and Life: An Overview.
2. Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology.
3. Risk and Prevention of Mental Disorders.
4. Diagnosis, Assessment, and Study of Mental Disorders.
5. Anxiety Disorders.
6. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders.
7. Mood Disorders and Suicide.
8. Eating Disorders.
9. Substance Related Disorders.
10. Personality Disorders.
11. Sexual Dysfunctions and Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder.
12. Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders.
13. Developmental and Disruptive Behavior Disorders.
14. Cognitive Disorders.
15. Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology.

Christopher A. Kearney

Christopher A. Kearney is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Timothy J. Trull, Ph.D., is professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri.