LooseLeaf for Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders

Susan Krauss Whitbourne (Autor)

Loseblattwerk

480 Seiten

2016 | 8th edition
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-786198-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Presenting the human side of Psychological Disorders. Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, shows students real-life portrayals of psychological disorders through an extensive use of clinical and online case studies, biographies, and first-person quotations. The program maintains the biopsychosocial approach, incorporating biological,psychological, and sociocultural contributions to psychological disorders, also acknowledging the evolution of psychological disorders over the lifespan. The eighth edition ties concepts together with an integrated, personalized learning program, providing students the insight they need to study smarter and improve performance.Abnormal Psychology personalizes the human experience, while helping students think critically and apply their knowledge through activities in McGraw-Hill’s digital learning platform, Connect.  Connect for Abnormal Psychology includes the only adaptive reading experience on the market, McGraw-Hill SmartBook, as well as new Interactive Case Studies for Abnormal Psychology and the Faces of Abnormal Psychology video program. 

Autor

Professor Whitbourne received her Ph. D. from Columbia University and has dual specializations in life-span developmental psychology and clinical psychology. She has taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the University of Rochester. At the University of Massachusetts, she received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award and the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2002, she received the Florence Denmark/Psi Chi National Faculty Advisor Award and in 2003, the APA Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) Master Mentor Award . She is the Honors Coordinator in the Psychology Department and the Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement in the newly established Commonwealth Honors College. The author of fourteen books and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters, Professor Whitbourne is regarded as an expert in the field of personality development in adulthood and old age. She is currently the APA Council Representative of Division 20 of APA having also served as Division 20 President. Professor Whitbourne has developed nationally recognized approaches to technological innovations in teaching, and the web site she developed for her introductory psychology course was selected as a McGraw-Hill Web Cafe "Site of the Month."

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Overview to Understanding Abnormal BehaviorChapter 2: Diagnosis and Treatment

Chapter 3: Assessment

Chapter 4: Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 5: Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Chapter 6: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 

Chapter 7: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders 

Chapter 8: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders  

Chapter 9: Dissociative and Somatic Symptom Disorders 

Chapter 10: Feeding and Eating Disorders; Elimination Disorders; Sleep-Wake Disorders; and Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders 

Chapter 11: Paraphilic Disorders, Sexual Dysfunctions, and Gender Dysphoria 

Chapter 12: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders 

Chapter 13: Neurocognitive Disorders 

Chapter 14: Personality Disorders 

Chapter 15: Ethical and Legal Issues

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 229 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 898 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-07-786198-1 / 0077861981
• ISBN-13: 978-0-07-786198-8 / 9780077861988
• Zustand: Neuware