Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorders (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology) - Hardcover

Williams, J. Mark G.; Watts, Fraser N.; MacLeod, Colin M.; Matthews, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471918458 ISBN 13: 9780471918455

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1988

Synopsis

Focusing on clinical emotional disorders, the book examines the application of experimental paradigms and theoretical frameworks from contemporary academic cognitive psychology. The book reviews theoretical experimental aspects of the application of cognitive psychology to the understanding of emotional disorders. Cognitive approaches to emotional disorders are now common in clinical psychology, but abnormalities in cognitive processing are still not well understood. This is the first, comprehensive, book-length review of recent work on cognitive psychology of emotional disorders, many aspects of which (eg the effects of mood on memory) have attracted widespread interest. Much of the book is concerned with results obtained with objective, experimental paradigms that do not suffer from the methodological weaknesses of the self-report approaches on which most clinical research is based.

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From the Back Cover:

An explosion of interest in the application of cognitive psychologyto the understanding of emotional disorders has prompted a secondedition of this highly regarded book. Reviewing the work of thelast decade, it looks at how emotion affects the followingprocesses, and how they in turn contribute to emotional disorder:conscious and nonconscious processing; memory bias and memorydeficits; attentional bias; schematic processing; judgements; andthoughts and images. The second edition provides in particular:

• An exploration of abnormalities in cognitive processing
• Reviews of key papers that use experimental cognitivepsychology to understand emotional disorders
• Descriptions of the authors? own research in this area
• A theoretical model to explain the phenomena described

The book has been written for postgraduate and advancedundergraduate psychologists interested in cognitive models inabnormal psychology, for clinical psychologists using cognitivetherapies, and for cognitive psychologists wishing to explore theinterface between cognition and emotion. "Drs Williams, Watts,MacLeod, and Mathews are world leaders in experimentalpsychopathology ? the authors synthesize these studies and those ofother scholars, and show how the data can be accommodated by arevised version of their justly famous information–processing modelof anxiety and depression. This book is essential reading foranyone wishing to become conversant with cutting–edge theory andresearch on the cognitive aspects of anxiety and mood disorders.The first edition of Cognitive Psychology and Emotional Disorderswas a masterpiece, and the second edition is even better than thefirst." Richard J. McNally, Professor, Department of Psychology,Harvard University

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0471918458
• ISBN 13: 9780471918455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236