Research Catalog

Title

Abnormal psychology / James N. Butcher, Sue Mineka, Jill M. Hooley.

Author

Butcher, James Neal, 1933-

Publication

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mineka, Susan
• Hooley, Jill M.

Description

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

The esteemed author team of Jim Butcher, Jill Hooley, and Sue Mineka 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 comprehensive bio-psycho-social perspective, this text takes students to levels of understanding that other books do not offer.

Subject

• Psychology, Pathological
• Psychiatry
• Mental Disorders > psychology
• Psychology > methods
• Psychopathology > methods
• Psychopathology
• Psychopathologie
• Psychopathologie
• Psychische Störung
• Psychology, Pathological
• Psychiatry

Genre/Form

Lehrbuch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Abnormal psychology: an overview -- Historical and contemporary views of abnormal behavior -- Causal factors and viewpoints -- Clinical assessment and diagnosis -- Stress and physical and mental health -- Panic, anxiety, and their disorders -- Mood disorders and suicide -- Somatoform and dissociative disorders -- Eating disorders and obesity -- Personality disorders -- Substance-related disorders -- Sexual variants, abuse, and dysfunctions -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Disorders of childhood and adolescence -- Therapy -- Contemporary and legal issues in abnormal psychology.

ISBN

• 9780205594955
• 0205594956
• 9780205685066
• 0205685064

LCCN

2009000360

OCLC

• 298325737
• SCSB-9925430

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library