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ABOUT THE BOOK:-bnormal 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.
Key Features:
Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach covers the main disorder`s features, available assessment tools and treatments. In addition, it helps students see clients of mental health services as real people who have varying risk factors and who fall in different places on a behavioral continuum for each disorder.
There are two unique chapters in the text: One on risk factors and prevention (Chapter 3) and one that discusses both careers for students in the mental health profession and how to become a client of those services (Chapter 15, "Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology").
Each disorder chapter contains at least one continuum that shows the varying degrees of a disorder and how it can be illustrated through a common situation. For example, the Anxiety Disorder continuum shows the levels of worry, anxiety and fear from normal to severe experienced by a person interviewing for a new job.
Personal Narratives give first-hand accounts of an individual living with a psychological disorder, the family or friends affected by those living with a disorder or the professionals who try to help. The text aims to put a human face on the disorders, showing students that real people deal with psychological disorders and that a disorder can best be treated by assessing each individual in a holistic fashion.
Additional features such as Case Studies with corresponding What Do You Think? questions, DSM-IV-TR tables, Interim Summaries and Review Questions all help students remember, understand and apply the material.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abnormal Psychology and Life: An Overview
Perspectives on Abnormal Psychology
Risk and Prevention of Mental Disorders
Diagnosis, Assessment and Study of Mental Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
Mood Disorders and Suicide
Eating Disorders
Substance Related Disorders
Personality Disorders
Sexual Dysfunctions and Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders
Developmental and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Cognitive Disorders
Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology
Appendix: Stress Related Problems
Glossary
References
Name Index
Subject IndexISBN - 9788131521007
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