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Science "Pushing the Boundaries" examines the most cutting edge and exciting research in the field such as "Can the Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Change your Personality" (Ch. 8).
Science Extensive updates to biological theories and treatments for every disorder. Chapter 6 features Virtual Reality Therapy for Phobias.
Science "Taking Sides" Discusses hot controversies in abnormal psychology such as "Should Psychologists be Permitted to Prescribe Drugs?" (Ch. 5).
Compassion "Voices" in every chapter gives students a personal account of people with a mental illness. These are excerpts from autobiographies that describe the world through the eyes of someone with a mental illness.
Compassion "Extraordinary People" feature highlights people who are successfully living with a psychological disorder. A Pulitzer-Prize Winning author describes living with depression (Ch. 9).
Compassion "Taking Psychology Personally" addresses the personal concerns many students bring to a course on abnormal psychology. Practical topics such as how to look for a therapist are covered.
Teachability DSM IV criteria and classes of drugs to treat a disorder are summarized in tables to increase student comprehension.
Teachability Concept Review Tables provide students with a method for organizing information often in a visual way and also provide instructors with an organizing framework for lecture preparation.
The bio-psychosocial approach is woven throughout each chapter and presented in integrated summaries within each chapter.
Strong emphasis on the integration of both gender and cultural issues within every chapter.
The most current biological research in psychopathology and the best empirically supported psychosocial theories are emphasized and presented in a clearly understandable manner.
Numerous Case Studies are integrated into the text to pique student interest and enliven descriptive material
Separate chapters on Eating Disorders and Personality
Each major section in a chapter ends with a bulleted summary of key points.
Chapter on "Suicide"
About the Author:
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (19592013) In January 2013 we lost our esteemed author and friend, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. Susan was a renowned scholar, teacher, mentor, and academic leader. She was recognized internationally for her work on how people regulate their feelings and emotions and how particular patterns of thinking can make people vulnerable to and recover slowly from emotional problems, especially depression. Her research shaped the fields perspective on depression in women and girls, and countless empirical studies and theoretical contributions followed as she developed her groundbreaking theory of rumination and depression. In her words: My career has focused on two parallel goals. The first is to use empirical methods to address important social and mental health problems (depression, rumination, womens mental health). The second goal is to disseminate psychological science. I also believe in taking science to the public, through my textbook on Abnormal Psychology and books for the general public on womens mental health. Susan taught at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Yale University.Susans work focused on depression, mood-regulation, and gender, for which she was recognized and received the David Shakow Early Career Award from Division 12, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Committee on Women of American Psychological Association, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, a Research Career Award, and multiple grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition, she was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, now the most highly cited journal in the field of clinical psychology. In addition to being an accomplished professor, scholar, teacher, and writer, Susan was a loving and devoted mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and mentor. Susan touched and inspired the lives of many people both professionally and personally, and she will be dearly missed.
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