| Description |
xv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. Diathesis-Stress Models -- 2. Diagnosis -- 3. Anxiety Disorders -- 4. Mood Disorders -- 5. Antisocial Personality Disorder -- 6. Substance Abuse and Dependence and Pathological Gambling Disorders -- 7. Schizophrenia -- 8. Prognosis for the Science of Psychopathology |
| Summary |
This book proposes that psychopathology is best understood as the interaction between 3 factors: biology-genetics, personality, and stressful events. These, in combination with social and familial factors, create vulnerability in the individual. Using this framework, the author synthesizes for his readers the most current research available on each of the major disorders including anxiety, mood, antisocial personality, substance abuse, pathological gambling, and schizophrenic disorders. The author's intent is to provide teachers, graduates students, clinicians, researchers, and theorists with an up-to-date coursebook, a single source of information on the major psychological disorders. The volume covers their history, diagnosis, prevalence, prognosis, course, outcome,comorbidity, demographic characteristics, genetics, biochemistry, and neurophysiology. An important finding is that while anxiety, depression, and antisocial personality represent extremes of normal personality dimensions, schizotypic personality and schizophrenic disorder are a taxon, not continuous with normal dimensions of personality. This comprehensive and authoritative book will be a valuable new resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-505) and indexes |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Ovid PsycBooks |
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English |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Etiology.
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Mental illness -- Risk factors.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Disease Susceptibility.
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Risk Factors.
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
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Body Constitution.
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Causality.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Disease Attributes.
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Disease Susceptibility.
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Disease.
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Environment and Public Health.
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Epidemiologic Factors.
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Epidemiologic Methods.
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Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.
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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
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Investigative Techniques.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Mental Disorders.
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Pathologic Processes.
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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms.
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Phenomena and Processes
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Physiological Phenomena.
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Probability.
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Psychiatry and Psychology
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Psychology.
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Public Health.
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Quality of Health Care.
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Risk Factors.
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Risk.
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Statistics as Topic.
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| Author |
American Psychological Association.
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| LC no. |
98033296 |
| ISBN |
1557985669 |
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1557985944 (paperback) |
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