Abnormal Psychology

Frontmatter Introduction

FM.1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FM.2 PREFACE

FM.3 Credits

Chapter 1: Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present

Chapter Introduction

1.1 What Is Psychological Abnormality?

1.2 What Is Treatment?

1.3 How Was Abnormality Viewed and Treated in the Past?

1.4 Current Trends

Chapter 2: Research in Abnormal Psychology

Chapter Introduction

2.1 What Do Clinical Researchers Do?

2.2 The Case Study

2.3 The Correlational Method

2.4 The Experimental Method

2.5 Alternative Experimental Designs

2.6 Protecting Human Participants

Chapter 3: Models of Abnormality

Chapter Introduction

3.1 The Biological Model

3.2 The Psychodynamic Model

3.3 The Behavioral Model

3.4 The Cognitive Model

3.5 The Humanistic-Existential Model

3.6 The Sociocultural Model: Family-Social and Multicultural Perspectives

Chapter 4: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Chapter Introduction

4.1 Clinical Assessment: How and Why Does the Client Behave Abnormally?

4.2 Diagnosis: Does the Client’s Syndrome Match a Known Disorder?

4.3 Treatment: How Might the Client Be Helped?

Chapter 5: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders

Chapter Introduction

5.1 Generalized Anxiety Disorder

5.2 Phobias

5.3 Social Anxiety Disorder

5.4 Panic Disorder

5.5 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Chapter 6: Disorders of Trauma and Stress

Chapter Introduction

6.1 Stress and Arousal: The Fight-or-Flight Response

6.2 Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

6.3 Dissociative Disorders

Chapter 7: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

Chapter Introduction

7.1 Unipolar Depression: The Depressive Disorders

7.2 What Causes Unipolar Depression?

7.3 Bipolar Disorders

Chapter 8: Treatments for Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

Chapter Introduction

8.1 Treatments for Unipolar Depression

8.2 Treatments for Bipolar Disorders

Chapter 9: Suicide

Chapter Introduction

9.1 What Is Suicide?

9.2 What Triggers a Suicide?

9.3 What Are the Underlying Causes of Suicide?

9.4 Is Suicide Linked to Age?

9.5 Treatment and Suicide

Chapter 10: Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms

Chapter Introduction

10.1 Factitious Disorder

10.2 Conversion Disorder and Somatic Symptom Disorder

10.3 Illness Anxiety Disorder

10.4 Psychophysiological Disorders: Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Conditions

Chapter 11: Eating Disorders

Chapter Introduction

11.1 Anorexia Nervosa

11.2 Bulimia Nervosa

11.3 Binge-Eating Disorder

11.4 What Causes Eating Disorders?

11.5 How Are Eating Disorders Treated?

Chapter 12: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders

Chapter Introduction

12.1 Depressants

12.2 Stimulants

12.3 Hallucinogens, Cannabis, and Combinations of Substances

12.4 What Causes Substance Use Disorders?

12.5 How Are Substance Use Disorders Treated?

12.6 Other Addictive Disorders

Chapter 13: Disorders of Sex and Gender

Chapter Introduction

13.1 Sexual Dysfunctions

13.2 Treatments for Sexual Dysfunctions

13.3 Paraphilic Disorders

13.4 Gender Dysphoria

Chapter 14: Schizophrenia

Chapter Introduction

14.1 The Clinical Picture of Schizophrenia

14.2 How Do Theorists Explain Schizophrenia?

Chapter 15: Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Disorders

Chapter Introduction

15.1 Institutional Care in the Past

15.2 Institutional Care Takes a Turn for the Better

15.3 Antipsychotic Drugs

15.4 Psychotherapy

15.5 The Community Approach

Chapter 16: Personality Disorders

Chapter Introduction

16.1 “Odd” Personality Disorders

16.2 “Dramatic” Personality Disorders

16.3 “Anxious” Personality Disorders

16.4 Multicultural Factors: Research Neglect

16.5 Are There Better Ways to Classify Personality Disorders?

Chapter 17: Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents

Chapter Introduction

17.1 Childhood and Adolescence

17.2 Childhood Anxiety Disorders

17.3 Depressive and Bipolar Disorders

17.4 Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder

17.5 Elimination Disorders

17.6 Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chapter 18: Disorders of Aging and Cognition

Chapter Introduction

18.1 Old Age and Stress

18.2 Depression in Later Life

18.3 Anxiety Disorders in Later Life

18.4 Substance Misuse in Later Life

18.5 Psychotic Disorders in Later Life

18.6 Disorders of Cognition

18.7 Issues Affecting the Mental Health of the Elderly

Chapter 19: Law, Society, and the Mental Health Profession

Chapter Introduction

19.1 Law and Mental Health

19.2 What Ethical Principles Guide Mental Health Professionals?

19.3 Mental Health, Business, and Economics

19.4 Technology and Mental Health

19.5 The Person Within the Profession

GLOSSARY

Glossary

References

References