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Abnormal Psychology

by Alan Carr. 230 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Alan Carr

Publisher:

   Psychology Press

Place of Publication:

  Philadelphia  

Publication Year:

  2001
Subjects:   Psychology, Pathological, Depression, Mental, Anxiety Disorders
Table of contents
List of illustrations vii
Series preface ix
Preface xi
1 Childhood behaviour disorders 1
2 Anxiety disorders 37
3 Depression 77
4 Schizophrenia 107
5 Personality disorders 135
6 Models of abnormal behaviour 177
Glossary 199
References 205
Index 225
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books on: (Psychology Pathological) OR (Depression Mental) OR (Anxiety Disorders)  - 36789 results

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1.
Abnormal Psychology
Book by Alan Carr; Psychology Press, 2001
Subjects: Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Mental, Psychology, Pathological
...bibloographical references p. and index. 1. Psychology, Pathological. I. Title. II. Series. RC454.C2745 2001 616.89-dc21...schizophrenia in US and UK 182 Series preface The Psychology Focus series provides short, up-to-date accounts of...
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Anxiety Disorders Comorbid with Depression: Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Book by David Nutt, Adrian Feeney, Spilios Argyropolous; Martin Dunitz, 2002
Subjects: Agoraphobia, Panic Disorders
...experience, they become more vigilant about their own bodily sensations and are therefore more at risk of responding in a pathological fashion to the next experience of similar bodily sensations. They may also avoid precipitants that have already been...
3.
Understanding Panic and Other Anxiety Disorders
Book by Benjamin A. Root; University Press of Mississippi, 2000
Subjects: Anxiety, Panic Disorders
...may try to avoid socializing entirely. Its important to distinguish social phobia from simple shyness, which is not pathological and does not interfere with patients lives. (Perhaps pathological shyness should be an alternative diagnostic label...
4.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Psychopharmacological Approach
Book by David Nutt, Caroline Bell, Christine Masterson, Clare Short; Martin Dunitz, 2001
Subjects: Affective Disorders In Children, Anxiety In Children, Pediatric Psychopharmacology
...psychopharmacology of anxiety and depression. This has involved...biological aspects of mental illness together...assessment of the parents mental state, their own...attachment or maternal depression or anxiety may come...such as the Beck Depression Inventory and the...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3...
5.
Anxiety Disorders Comorbid with Depression: Social Anxiety Disorder, Post-Traumatiac Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Book by Dan J Stein, Eric Hollander; Martin Dunitz, 2002
Subjects: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Social Phobia
...specificity in panic and depression: Implications for comorbidity...International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders...with panic disorder and depression and normal controls...change in presentation of depression, 14-15 Agoraphobia...
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Prospective Longitudinal Associations between Persistent Sleep Problems in Childhood and Anxiety and Depression Disorders in Adulthood
Journal article by Alice M. Gregory, Avshalom Caspi, Thalia C. Eley, Terrie E. Moffitt, Thomas G. O'Connor, Richie Poulton; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Anxiety, Childhood sleep disorders, Depression (Mood disorder), Depression, Mental, Sleep disorders in children
...Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 28, 383-394. Fergusson...Trouble sleeping and anxiety/depression in childhood. Psychiatry...risk factor to develop depression? Journal of Affective...National-Institute-of-Mental-Health diagnostic interview...
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Anxiety Disorders in African-American and White Children
Journal article by Cynthia G. Last, Sean Perrin; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 21, 1993
Subjects: African American children--Psychology and mental health, Anxiety in children--Social aspects, Race--Psychological aspects
...the white and African-American children scored in the pathological range on widely used, standardized self-report measures...anxiety in children. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45, 862-870. Hollingshead, A. B. (1975). Four-factor...
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Parental Anxiety Disorders, Child Anxiety Disorders, and the Perceived Parent-Child Relationship in an Australian High-Risk Sample
Journal article by Erin B. Mcclure, Patricia A. Brennan, Constance Hammen, Robyne M. Le Brocque; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 29, 2001
Subjects: Adolescent psychology--Research, Anxiety--Psychological aspects, Parent and child--Psychological aspects, Parenting--Psychological aspects, Prediction (Psychology)--Research
...Depression only n = 248...offspring anxiety disorder status...Parent Anxiety Disorder (AD) anxiety...
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The Relation of Child Sexual Abuse and Depression in Young Women: Comparisons across Four Ethnic Groups
Journal article by Mark W. Roosa, Cindy Reinholtz, Patti Jo Angelini; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: Child sexual abuse--Psychological aspects, Depression, Mental--Research, Psychology, Pathological--Demographic aspects, Young women--Psychology and mental health
...1995). Psychosocial sequelae of violent victimization in a national youth sample. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 726-736. Boyer, D., Fine, D. (1992). Sexual abuse as a factor in adolescent pregnancy and child maltreatment...
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What Do Youth Referred for Anxiety Problems Worry about? Worry and Its Relation to Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
Journal article by Carl F. Weems, Wendy K. Silverman, Annette M. La Greca; Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Vol. 28, 2000
Subjects: Anxiety--Analysis, Child psychopathology--Research, Worry--Analysis, Youth--Psychological aspects
...and thus render worry pathological. This was done in two...doctoral students in psychology. Diagnosticians were...of normal worry and pathological worry. In R. M. Rapee...Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 26. 175-185. Henker...
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Up to One Fifth of the World's Children Have Mental or Behavioural Problems
Magazine article by Katrin Eun-Myo Park; UN Chronicle, Vol. 39, June 2002
Subjects: Behavior disorders in children--Care and treatment, Depression, Mental--Statistics, Mentally ill--Care and treatment, World Health Organization--Reports, World Health Report 2001, Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope, (Report)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...to be available at the community level. As large custodial mental hospitals are being replaced by community care facilities...and epilepsy fall into four categories: antidepressants for depression; antipsychotics for psychotic symptoms; anti-epileptics for...
2.
Poverty and Mental Health in the Developing World
Magazine article by Keya Acharya; Contemporary Review, Vol. 279, September 2001
Subjects: Anxiety--Statistics, Depression, Mental--Statistics, India--Psychological aspects, Indians--Psychology and mental health, Mental health--International aspects, Mental illness--Risk factors, Poverty--Health aspects, World Health Organization--Reports
...care clinics had a common mental disorder (CMD) such as anxiety or clinical depression. Women were two to three...Importantly, not all mental disorders are increasing...of anxiety and clinical depression to rising inequality, as...
3.
The Facts about Depression
Magazine article; Public Management, Vol. 76, November 1994
Subjects: American Psychiatric Association--Reports, Depression, Mental--Evaluation
...said to have had an episode of clinical depression. More severe symptoms mark the period as an episode of major depression. Many mental health experts say that the key to judging this gradation lies in the amount of change a person undergoes in...
4.
Are We Becoming a Nation of Depressives? by Many Estimates Depression Has Become the Scourge of Westerners. Already the Fourth Leading Cause of Disability in the Workforce, It Is Projected to Reach Number Two by the Year 2020 (after Respiratory Infections)
Magazine article by Kevin Turnquist; The Humanist, Vol. 62, September 2002
Subjects: Americans--Psychological aspects, Antidepressants--Finance, Chimpanzees--Genetic aspects, Depression (Mood disorder)--Diagnosis, Depression, Mental--Diagnosis, Hippocampus (Brain)--Physiological aspects, Mental health services--Finance, Psychiatric services--Finance
...led to them being prescribed for a host of new maladies: mild depression, phobias, obsessions, posttraumatic stress symptoms, anxiety...with emotion. Perhaps SSRIs decrease the emotional response to mental events so that chronic worries, obsessions, sad thoughts, and...
5.
The Age of Depression
Magazine article by Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield; Public Interest, Winter 2005
Subjects: Americans--Health aspects, Americans--Psychological aspects, Depression (Mood disorder)--Care and treatment, Depression (Mood disorder)--Causes of, Depression (Mood disorder)--Diagnosis, Depression (Mood disorder)--Forecasts and trends, Depression, Mental--Care and treatment, Depression, Mental--Causes of, Depression, Mental--Diagnosis, Depression, Mental--Forecasts and trends, Mentally ill persons--Care and treatment, Mentally ill persons--Growth, Mentally ill persons--Social aspects, Mentally ill--Care and treatment, Mentally ill--Growth, Mentally ill--Social aspects
...symptoms over an abnormally long duration do. A century later, Aristotle elaborated the distinction between normal and pathological mood states. He separated melancholic states that arose from the conditions of everyday life from disorders that involved...
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Kava Might Be an Alternative for Treating Anxiety Disorders
Newspaper article by Patrick B. Massey; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 21, 2004
...unrealistic or excessive anxiety or worry and often is associated with other anxiety disorders and depression. Patients suffering from general anxiety disorder most commonly are treated by primary-care physicians, not psychiatrists, and misdiagnosis...
2.
How to Mind Mental Wellbeing; HEALTH: With the Pressures of 21st-Century Living Come the Side-Effects of Stress and Depression - but the Stigma That Went with These Issues Is Fast Disappearing
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), September 27, 2007
Subjects: Comedians--Methods, Depression (Mood disorder)--Methods, Depression, Mental--Methods, Mental health--Methods
...personality disorders and schizophrenia. "As we go through life, our mental health doesnt remain stable," Pamela adds. "We are going to...struggling with a mental health problem, the most common being depression and anxiety. "Very often people dont know that treatment is...
3.
North Top Spender on Depression Drugs; Mental Health Patient Numbers Rise Each Year
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), December 3, 2007
Subjects: Depression (Mood disorder), Depression, Mental, Drugs--Statistics
...these drugs and people could have talking therapies instead. "If we were able to have ready access to a level of community psychology services that we needed, we wouldnt be prescribing as we are." According to the PPA figures, the average spending on anti-depressants...
4.
Anorexia Largely Determined by Heredity; Anxiety, Depression, Neurosis Also Said to Predict Eating Disorder
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 7, 2006
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa, Depression (Mood disorder), Depression, Mental, Medical research, Medicine, Experimental
...Largely Determined by Heredity; Anxiety, Depression, Neurosis Also Said to Predict Eating...anorexia nervosa, a rare but dangerous mental condition, is primarily genetic in origin...Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV.
5.
One Child in Ten Has Depression and Drinking Is Partly to Blame
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 2006
Subjects: Alcohol and youth--Psychological aspects, Alcohol and youth--Reports, Depression (Mood disorder)--Psychological aspects, Depression (Mood disorder)--Reports, Depression, Mental--Psychological aspects, Depression, Mental--Reports, Eating disorders--Psychological aspects, Eating disorders--Reports, Juvenile drinking--Psychological aspects, Juvenile drinking--Reports, Mental health--Psychological aspects, Mental health--Reports
...disturbing report revealed yesterday. One in ten youngsters under 16 has a mental health disorder, according to the British Medical Association. Many need help with depression, anxiety or eating disorders. Other problems include hyperactivity disorders...
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Anxiety
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...and are carefully avoided by the phobic individual. Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) are characterized by obsessions (mental quandries) and compulsions (physical actions) that engage the individual excessively. Extreme anxiety may be experienced...
2.
Psychiatry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression , schizophrenia , and anxiety . Although...recognized the significance of emotions in mental disorders, medieval thought emphasized...
3.
Neurosis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
NEUROSIS in psychiatry, a broad category of psychological disturbance, encompassing various mild forms of mental disorder. Until fairly recently, the term neurosis was broadly employed in contrast with psychosis, which denoted much more...
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Psychopharmacology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...of side effects, including depression, reserpine has been supplanted...first to be widely applied to mental disorders and remains one of...individuals with less serious mental disorders, but may lead to...individuals suffering from major depression or the depression phase of...
5.
Cocaine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Abstinence after a cocaine binge leads to crashing (anxiety, depression, suspiciousness, sleep craving) and withdrawal (absence of...Treatment is often complicated by underlying social problems, mental illness, and the use of multiple drugs. Production and Distribution...
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