Includes bibliographical references (p. R1-R52) and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction And Historical Overview: -- Defining mental disorder: -- Personal distress -- Disability -- Violation of social norms -- Dysfunction -- History of psychopathology: -- Early demonology -- Early biological explanations -- Dark Ages and demonology -- Development of asylums -- Evolution of contemporary thought: -- Biological approaches -- Psychological approaches -- Mental health professions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Current Paradigms In Psychopathology: -- Genetic paradigm: -- Behavior genetics -- Molecular genetics -- Gene-environment interactions -- Reciprocal gene-environment interactions -- Evaluating the genetic paradigm -- Neuroscience paradigm: -- Neurons and neurotransmitters -- Structure and function of the human brain -- Neuroendocrine system -- Neuroscience approaches to treatment -- Evaluating the neuroscience paradigm -- Cognitive behavioral paradigm: -- Influences from behavior therapy -- Cognitive science -- Role of the unconscious --̂

Cognitive behavior therapy -- Evaluating the cognitive behavioral paradigm -- Factors that cut across the paradigms: -- Emotion and psychopathology -- Sociocultural factors and psychopathology -- Interpersonal factors and psychopathology -- Diathesis-stress: an integrative paradigm -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Diagnosis And Assessment: -- Cornerstones of diagnosis and assessment: -- Reliability -- Validity -- Classification and diagnosis: -- Diagnostic system of the American Psychiatric Association: toward DSM-5 -- Specific criticisms of the DSM -- General criticisms of diagnosing mental illness -- Psychological assessment: -- Clinical interviews -- Assessment of stress -- Personality tests -- Intelligence tests -- Behavioral and cognitive assessment -- Neurobiological assessment: -- Brain imaging: seeing the brain -- Neurotransmitter assessment -- Neuropsychological assessment -- Psychophysiological assessment -- Cautionary note about neurobiological assessment --̂

Cultural and ethnic diversity and assessment: -- Cultural bias in assessment -- Strategies for avoiding cultural bias in assessment -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Research Methods In Psychopathology: -- Science and scientific methods -- Approaches to research on psychopathology: -- Case study -- Correlational method -- Experiment -- Integrating the findings of multiple studies -- Summary --

Chapter 5: Mood Disorders: -- Clinical descriptions and epidemiology of mood disorders: -- Depressive disorders -- Bipolar disorders -- Subtypes of depressive disorders and bipolar disorders -- Etiology of mood disorders: -- Neurobiological factors in mood disorders -- Social factors in depression: life events and interpersonal difficulties -- Psychological factors in depression -- Fitting together the etiological factors in depressive disorders -- Social and psychological factors in bipolar disorder -- Treatment of mood disorders: -- Psychological treatment of depression -- Psychological treatment of bipolar disorder -- Biological treatment of mood disorders -- Depression and primary care -- Final note on treatment -- Suicide: -- Epidemiology of suicide and suicide attempts -- Models of suicide -- Preventing suicide -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Anxiety Disorders: -- Clinical descriptions of the anxiety disorders: -- Specific phobias -- Social anxiety disorder -- Panic disorder --

Agoraphobia -- Generalized anxiety disorder -- Comorbidity in anxiety disorders -- Gender and sociocultural factors in the anxiety disorders: -- Gender -- Culture -- Common risk factors across the anxiety disorders: -- Fear conditioning -- Genetic factors: are genes a diathesis for anxiety disorders? -- Neurobiological factors: the fear circuit and the activity of neurotransmitters -- Personality: behavioral inhibition and neuroticism -- Cognitive factors -- Etiology of specific anxiety disorders: -- Etiology of specific phobias -- Etiology of social anxiety disorder -- Etiology of panic disorder -- Etiology of agoraphobia -- Etiology of generalized anxiety disorder -- Treatments of the anxiety disorders: -- Commonalities across psychological treatments -- Psychological treatments of specific anxiety disorders -- Medications that reduce anxiety -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Obsessive-Compulsive Related And Trauma-Related Disorders: -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: --

Clinical descriptions and epidemiology of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Etiology of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Treatment of the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder: -- Clinical description and epidemiology of posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder -- Etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder -- Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and acute stress disorder -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Dissociative Disorders And Somatic Symptom Disorders: -- Dissociative disorders: -- Dissociation and memory -- Dissociative amnesia -- Depersonalization/derealization disorder -- Dissociative identity disorder -- Somatic symptom disorders: -- Clinical description of complex somatic symptom disorder -- Clinical description of illness anxiety disorder -- Clinical description of functional neurological disorder -- Etiology of somatic symptom disorders --

Treatment of somatic symptom disorders -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Schizophrenia: -- Clinical descriptions of schizophrenia: -- Positive symptoms -- Negative symptoms -- Disorganized symptoms -- Movement symptoms -- Schizophrenia and the DSM-5 -- Etiology of schizophrenia: -- Genetic factors -- Role of neurotransmitters -- Brain structure and function -- Environmental factors influencing the developing brain -- Psychological factors -- Developmental factors -- Treatment of schizophrenia: -- Medications -- Psychological treatments -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders: -- Clinical descriptions, prevalence, and effects of substance use disorders: -- Alcohol use disorder -- Tobacco use disorder -- Marijuana -- Opiates -- Stimulants -- Hallucinogens, ecstasy, and PCP -- Etiology of substance use disorders: -- Genetic factors -- Neurobiological factors -- Psychological factors -- Sociocultural factors -- Treatment of substance use disorders: --

Treatment of alcohol use disorder -- Treatments for smoking -- Treatment of drug use disorders -- Prevention of substance use disorders -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Eating Disorders: -- Clinical descriptions of eating disorders: -- Anorexia nervosa -- Bulimia nervosa -- Binge eating disorder -- Etiology of eating disorders: -- Genetic factors -- Neurobiological factors -- Cognitive behavioral factors -- Sociocultural factors -- Other factors contributing to the etiology of eating disorders -- Treatment of eating disorders: -- Medications -- Psychological treatment of anorexia nervosa -- Psychological treatment of bulimia nervosa -- Psychological treatment of binge eating disorder -- Preventive interventions for eating disorders -- Summary --

Chapter 12: Sexual Disorders: -- Sexual norms and behavior: -- Gender and sexuality -- Sexual response cycle -- Sexual dysfunctions -- Clinical descriptions of sexual dysfunctions -- Etiology of sexual dysfunctions -- Treatments of sexual dysfunctions -- Paraphilias: -- Fetishistic disorder -- Pedohebephilic disorder and incest -- Voyeuristic disorder -- Exhibitionistic disorder -- Frotteuristic disorder -- Sexual sadism and masochism disorders -- Etiology of the paraphillas -- Treatments for the paraphilias -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Disorders Of Childhood: -- Classification and diagnosis of childhood disorders -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: -- Clinical descriptions, prevalence, and prognosis of ADHD -- Etiology of ADHD -- Treatment of ADHD -- Conduct disorder: -- Clinical description, prevalence, and prognosis of conduct disorder -- Etiology of conduct disorder --Treatment of conduct disorder -- Depression and anxiety in children and adolescents: -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Learning disabilities: -- Clinical descriptions -- Etiology of learning disabilities -- Treatment of learning disabilities -- Intellectual developmental disorder: -- Diagnosis and assessment of intellectual developmental disorder -- Etiology of intellectual developmental disorder -- Treatment of intellectual developmental disorder -- Autism spectrum disorder: -- Clinical descriptions, prevalence, and prognosis of autism spectrum disorder -- Etiology of autism spectrum disorder -- Treatment of autism spectrum disorder -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Late Life And Neurocognitive Disorders: -- Aging: issues and methods: -- Myths about late life -- Problems experienced in late life -- Research methods in the study of aging -- Psychological disorders in late life: -- Estimating the prevalence of psychological disorders in late life -- Methodological issues in estimating the prevalence of psychopathology -- Neurocognitve disorders in late life: -- Dementia -- Delirium -- Summary --

Chapter 15: Personality And Personality Disorders: -- Comparing personality assessment in the DSM-IV-TR and the proposed DSM-5 -- Steps of personality assessment in the proposed DSM-5: -- Levels of personality functioning -- Personality disorder types -- Personality trait domains and facets -- Personality disorder types: -- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder -- Narcissistic personality disorder -- Schizotypal personality disorder -- Avoidant personality disorder -- Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy -- Borderline personality disorder -- Treatment of personality disorders: -- General approaches to the treatment of personality disorders -- Treatment of schizotypal personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, and psychopathy -- Treatment of borderline personality disorder -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Legal And Ethical Issues: -- Criminal commitment: -- Insanity defense -- Competency to stand trial -- Insanity, intellectual disability, and capital punishment -- Civil commitment: -- Preventive detention and problems in the prediction of dangerousness -- Toward greater protection of the rights of people with mental illness -- Deinstitutionalization, civil liberties, and mental health -- Ethical dilemmas in therapy and research: -- Ethical restraints on research -- Informed consent -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- Who is the client or patient? -- Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Quotation and illustration credits -- Name index -- Subject index.

Overview: Abnormal Psychology 12th Edition, continues the tradition of giving students the opportunity to explore the latest theories and research in the field. It has been adapted to take into account UK/European examples in diagnosis and classification of mental illness, statistics on misuse of drugs and treatment as well as a fully revised chapter with European examples on legal and ethical issues. As distinguished scholars and leaders in the field of Psychology, our author team continues to emphasize recent and comprehensive research coverage that has been the hallmark of the text. Significant new material correlated to the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5), included in every chapter. Abnormal Psychology emphasizes an integrated approach, showing how psychopathology is best understood by considering multiple perspectives, and how these varying perspectives can provide us with the clearest accounting of the causes of these disorders as well as the best possible treatments.