Description
Nowupdated to reflect the DSM-5, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema's, Abnormal Psychology blends cutting-edge research inpsychopathology with compassion for those who live with psychological disorders. The sixth edition continues the program’s emphasis on making biologicalinformation clear to students and on providing a strong focus on empiricalresearch and diversity.
New to this edition is Connect for Abnormal Psychology, McGraw-Hill Education’s digital learning platform, which includes thegroundbreaking adaptive reading experience,SmartBook ,as well as Faces: Interactive and the new Interactive Case Studies for Abnormal Psychology.
Key Features
McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect is a digital assignment and assessment platform that strengthens the link between faculty, students, and coursework, helping everyone accomplish more in less time. Connect uses innovative, interactive technology to enable a more personalized learning experience that better engages students in course content so they are better prepared, are more active in discussion, and achieve better results. Connect allows instructors to give homework assignments with immediate, automatic feedback, upload recorded class lectures and presentations through Tegrity, and track student progress and concept comprehension through robust reporting tools.
Available within Connect, SmartBook™ is an adaptive learning program designed to help students stay focused and maximize their study time. Based on metacognition, and powered by LearnSmart™, SmartBook’s adaptive capabilities provide with a personalized reading and learning experience that helps them identify the concepts they know, and more importantly, the concepts they don’t know.
Also available within Connect, Faces: Interactive is a digital learning environment that provides students with an opportunity to observe and interact with real people living with psychological disorders. Through its unique, interactive video program, Faces presents students with an opportunity to develop their critical thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of psychological disorders.
Connect Insight™ is a one-of-kind visual analytics dashboard—now available for both instructors and students—that provides at-a-glance information regard¬ing student performance. Designed for mobile devices, Connect Insight travels from office to classroom, available on demand wherever or whenever it’s needed.
Through McGraw-Hill Create, instructors have access to detailed disorder-by-disorder guides on changes in diagnostic criteria to help adjust lectures and course materials
Shades of Gray case studies provide students with an opportunity to respond to an ambiguous case that illustrates the complexity in judging abnormal and normal behavior.
Test Yourself questions at the end of each major section of text allow students to check their understanding of key topics and apply them to real-world scenarios throughout the chapter building on what they have learned. Think Criticallyquestions at the end of each chapter challenge students to apply what they have learned by designing an experiment or intervention, reflecting on their own personal experiences, and voicing their opinions on controversial topics in clinical psychology.
Thoroughly updated with nearly 300 new references, approximately 80% of which date from 2010 and later.
New Features
The new Interactive Case Studies for Abnormal Psychology help students understand the complexities of psychological disorders from a case study perspective.
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Looking at Abnormality Chapter 2: Theories and Treatment of Abnormality Chapter 3: Assessing and Diagnosing Abnormality Chapter 4: The Research Endeavor Chapter 5: Trauma, Anxiety, Obsessive - Compulsive, and Related Disorders Chapter 6: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders Chapter 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide Chapter 8: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Chapter 9: Personality Disorders Chapter 10: Neurodevelopmental and Neurocognitive Disorders Chapter 11: Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders Chapter 12: Eating Disorders Chapter 13: Sexual Disorders Chapter 14: Substance Use and Gambling Disorders Chapter 15: Health Psychology Chapter 16: Mental Health and the Law