Essential Abnormal and Clinical Psychology - Hardcover

Field, Matt; Cartwright-Hatton, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761941886 ISBN 13: 9780761941880

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

This essential introduction to abnormal and clinical psychology explores the key areas, controversies and debates in the field and encourages students to think critically. The textbook includes: * the latest updates from DSM-5 and ICD-10 and a balanced critique of the DSM approach *an extensive range of pedagogy including 'Essential Debate' and 'Essential Experience' boxes that encourage critical thinking and provide real-life case study examples *Concise, accessible and neatly structured chapters which provide you with answers to questions such as What is the disorder? How does the disorder develop? What is going on in the mind and brain of the sufferer? and How is the disorder treated? This is a must-read text for all students taking Undergraduate Abnormal and Clinical Psychology modules and provides a crucial framework of study for all students taking Postgraduate courses in this area too.

About this title

Review:

An excellent guide to how mental health problems are understood and treated; accessible, wide-ranging, and full of fascinating information on this important topic.

(Daniel Freeman)

This excellent textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to clinical and abnormal psychology. I will be recommending it as essential reading for both psychology and medical students.

(Rebecca Elliott)

About the Author:

Matt Field is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Liverpool. While an undergraduate student at Swansea University, his experience of research investigating depressed mood and alcohol craving motivated him to pursue a career in research. He went on to study conditioning processes in tobacco addiction for his PhD, which he received from the University of Sussex in 2001. Following a three-year spell at the University of Southampton, he moved to the University of Liverpool in 2004. He leads the addiction research group, teaches abnormal and clinical psychology to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and does far too much University administration. He is on the Editorial boards of the journals Addiction, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and Psychopharmacology, has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals (some of them are even quite good!), and this is his first book. He lives with his wife and three cats in Formby.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0761941886
• ISBN 13: 9780761941880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360