Abnormal Psychology And Life: A Dimensional Approach (Paperback - 2012)

Key Features Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach covers the main disorders' features, available assessment tools, and treatments. In addition, it helps students see clients of mental health services as real people who have varying risk factors, and who fall in different places on a behavioral continuum for each disorder. There are two unique chapters in the text: one on risk factors and prevention (Chapter 3), and one that discusses both careers for students in the mental health profession and how to become a client of those services (Chapter 15, "Consumer Guide to Abnormal Psychology"). Each disorder chapter contains at least one continuum that shows the varying degrees of a disorder and how it can be illustrated through a common situation. For example, the Anxiety Disorder continuum shows the levels of worry, anxiety, and fear-from normal to severe-experienced by a person interviewing for a new job. Personal Narratives give first-hand accounts of an individual living with a psychological disorder, the family or friends affected by those living with a disorder, or the professionals who try to help. The text aims to put a human face on the disorders, showing students that real people deal with psychological disorders, and that a disorder can best be treated by assessing each individual in a holistic fashion. Additional features such as Case Studies with corresponding What Do You Think? questions, DSM-IV-TR tables, Interim Summaries, and Review Questions all help students remember, understand, and apply the material. About the Book: Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach Chris Kearney and Tim Trull's Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach provides students with a concise, contemporary, science-based view of psychopathology that emphasizes the individual first and the disorder second. Through consistent pedagogy featuring clinical cases and real first-person narratives, the text illuminates our understanding that abnorm