Casebook in Abnormal Psychology - Softcover

Vitkus, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073034738 ISBN 13: 9780073034737

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1998

Synopsis

This casebook accompanies "Abnormal Psychology, 6/e", by Bootzin, Acocella and Alloy. By presenting case studies from actual practitioners, it illustrates how psychologists diagnose and treat various psychological disorders. Written in an accessible style, it aims to maintain a solid balance between scientific vigour and readability, and it presents a diverse selection of interesting and vivid cases from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Seven new cases have been added, making a total of 18, and each case is organized into five sections: presenting complaints, personal history, conceptualization and treatment, prognosis, and discussion.

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About the Author

Lauren B. Alloy is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of mood disorders. Her work on depression has had a major impact on the fields of clinical, personality, social, and cognitive psychology. She is currently Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Previously at Northwestern University, Dr. Alloy became the youngest full Professor in the University's history and the first woman Professor in Northwestern's Psychology Department. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy received both her B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Awarded the American Psychological Association's Young Psychologist Award in 1984, Dr. Alloy was named the American Psychological Association's Master Lecturer in Psychopathology in 2002 (jointly with Dr. Lyn Abramson), and in 2001 she received Temple University's Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award. She was also recognized by Northwestern University's College of Arts & Sciences with the Great Teacher Award in 1988 for her classroom teaching and mentoring of students. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy is the author of more than 130 scholarly publications, including a recent book (co-edited with Dr. John Riskind) entitled Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. She has also served on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Dr. Alloy's research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, and biopsychosocial processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder. Along with her colleagues, Lyn Abramson and Gerald Metalsky, she is the author of the hopelessness theory of depression and she discovered, with Lyn Abramson, the "sadder but wiser," or "depressive realism," effect. She regularly teaches courses on psychopathology.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0073034738
• ISBN 13: 9780073034737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288