Frontmatter Introduction
FM.1 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FM.2 PREFACE
FM.3 Credits
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 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 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 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?
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5.1 Generalized Anxiety Disorder
5.2 Phobias
5.3 Social Anxiety Disorder
5.4 Panic Disorder
5.5 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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6.1 Stress and Arousal: The Fight-or-Flight Response
6.2 Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
6.3 Dissociative Disorders
Chapter Introduction
7.1 Unipolar Depression: The Depressive Disorders
7.2 What Causes Unipolar Depression?
7.3 Bipolar Disorders
Chapter Introduction
8.1 Treatments for Unipolar Depression
8.2 Treatments for Bipolar Disorders
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 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 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?
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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 Introduction
13.1 Sexual Dysfunctions
13.2 Treatments for Sexual Dysfunctions
13.3 Paraphilic Disorders
13.4 Gender Dysphoria
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14.1 The Clinical Picture of Schizophrenia
14.2 How Do Theorists Explain Schizophrenia?
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 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 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 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 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
References