Abnormal Psychology (Collins College Outlines)
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0060881453
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Collins College Outline for Abnormal Psychology examines the symptoms, causes, and common treatments of the most frequently noted disorders, including personality, mood, psychotic, anxiety, gender, and organic conditions. This comprehensive guide also provides essential information on the history of abnormal psychology, legal issues, social policies, and major advances in research, as well as detailed explanations of behavioral, cognitive, biogenic, and sociocultural perspectives. Completely revised and updated byDr. Sarah Sifers, this book includes a test yourself section with answers and complete explanations at the end of each chapter. Also included are bibliographies for further reading, as well as numerous graphs, charts, and examples.
The Collins College Outlines are a completely revised, in-depth series of study guides for all areas of study, including the Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Science, Language, History, and Business. Featuring the most up-to-date information, each book is written by a seasoned professor in the field and focuses on a simplified and general overview of the subject for college students and, where appropriate, Advanced Placement students. Each Collins College Outline is fully integrated with the major curriculum for its subject and is a perfect supplement for any standard textbook.
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has a lifetime prevalence of about 0.5 percent. It is more common in women than in men. Major Depressive Disorder In the absence of manic features, a moderate to severe mood disorder is labeled major depression. There are two subcategories of major depression: single episode—that is, without a prior history of depression; and recurrent, in which the individual has had one or more major depressions in the past. Major depressive disorder has a lifetime prevalence of about 16.2 percent. It is
distinguished from paranoid personality disorder, in which paranoid thinking takes the form of suspicion of the motives of others but in which there is an absence of the elaborately developed and patently false delusions of the delusional disorder. The symptoms also cannot be due to a mood disorder, medical condition, or the effects of a controlled substance. Associated Symptoms All other symptoms are associated directly or indirectly with the central delusional belief. There may be resentments
two crucial days following a dose of Antabuse. The rationale behind the use of Antabuse is that is stops impulsive, unplanned drinking. If the alcoholic decides to resume drinking, he or she has to plan two days ahead to do so. In that time, therapists believe, there is a good chance that the determination not to drink will have become reestablished. The problem with such aversive therapy is that unless underlying problems motivating the drinking are solved, the alcoholic will simply decide to
cluster includes fetishes and transvestic fetishism, in which there is a sexual preference for nonhuman objects. A fetish is an attachment to such objects as shoes, female clothes or textured material, either as a supplement to coitus or as a substitute for it. Transvestic fetishism is finding sexual excitement by cross-sex dressing. Fetishes occur in persons with lowered self-esteem and feelings of sexual inadequacy. The fetish is usually triggered by an early conditioning experience in which
suggest a possible situation. After the performance, the encouraging comments of the trainer serve as reinforcement. Other volunteers are drawn into role-playing assertiveness in a variety of situations. The participants are then directed to attempt a real-life demonstration of an assertive position. Three positive influences are operative in assertiveness training: positive reinforcement; the desensitizing effect of engaging in behavior that is gradually made more assertive; and the modeling