Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-592) and index.
Contents:
Abnormal psychology: the core concepts -- Defining abnormality: what is psychopathology? -- Explaining abnormality: what causes psychopathology? -- Classifying abnormality: diagnosis and assessment -- Anxiety and the anxiety disorders -- Mood and the mood disorders -- Dissociation and the dissociative disorders -- Eating, weight, and the eating disorders -- Drug use and the substance use disorders -- Sex, gender, and the sexual disorders -- Personality and the personality disorders -- Psychosis and schizophrenia -- Lifespan development: disorders of childhood and old age -- Psychological stress and physical disorders -- Glossary.
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