Course Adoption Books on Abnormal Psychology

• Cognitive Dissonance

  This APA book documents the on-going research and debate provoked by the influential cognitive dissonance theory.

• Cognitive Schemas and Core Beliefs in Psychological Problems

  This book provides up-to-date information on the evaluation and utility of the schema concept and core beliefs as they apply to the research and treatment of a variety of clinical problems.

• Combined Treatments for Mental Disorders

  This book focuses on ways to integrate psychotherapy and pharmacological treatments for various mental disorders. The book also discusses issues regarding prescriptive authority for psychologists.

• Comprehending Suicide

  This volume gathers in one book 13 of the most thought-provoking works of the century that offer invaluable insights on suicide and on responses to it.

• Disorders of the Self

  This book applies a self psychological viewpoint, as formulated and broadened by Kohut, to understanding personality disorders.

• Emotion and Psychopathology

  Synthesizes theoretical and methodological developments in affective science and highlights their potential application to psychopathology.

• Exacting Beauty

  This book provides up-to-date coverage of how psychology grapples with the troubling relationship between psychological health and body image.

• The Hidden Disorder

  This APA guide book helps practitioners recognize and treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, offering relief and hope for distressed relationships and careers.

• Humanistic Psychotherapies

  This APA handbook offers readers an outstanding compendium of the latest research and practice techniques in humanistic psychotherapies.

• The Interactional Nature of Depression

  This APA book brings together interpersonal, cognitive, stress and coping, developmental, and social psychology perspectives into a comprehensive approach to depression theory and research.

• Marital and Family Processes in Depression

  APA book offers a cross disciplinary approach to synthesize the data and offer original research on depression and its relationship to marital problems with implications for marital and family therapy.

• Origins and Development of Schizophrenia

  This APA book presents some of the most exciting experimental psychopathology research in this area during the past 10 years and sheds new light on schizophrenia.

• Personality-Guided Therapy for Depression

  Describes a promising new approach to treating complicated depression, cases in which progress is painfully slow, elusive, or followed by relapse.

• Phobic Disorders and Panic in Adults

  This APA book is a complete resource on the three main phobic disorders -- providing handouts and forms to use with patients, sources for assessment materials and referral sources.

• Psychological Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

  This book provide practical, step-by-step descriptions of psychological approaches to treating OCD.

• Shy Children, Phobic Adults

  includes information from new studies differentiating patterns of distress characteristic of social anxiety disorder vs. social phobia.

• The Social Psychology of Emotional and Behavioral Problems

  This APA book documents the rich interplay between social and clinical psychology in theory and research.

• Spiritual Approaches in the Treatment of Women With Eating Disorders

  This book is for the practitioner who is curious about how to incorporate therapy that draws on clients' spirituality or religious background as a resource for recovery from eating disorders.

• Vulnerability to Psychopathology

  This APA book proposes that psychopathology is best understood as the interaction between three key factors—biology/genetics, personality, and stressful events.

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