Title:
Abnormal psychology : an integrative approach
Author:
Barlow, David H.
ISBN:
9781473734432
9781305950443
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st South African edition / South African edition editors L.M. du Plesssis, C. Visser.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 693, 14 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Abnormal behaviour in historical context -- An integrative approach to psychopathology -- Clinical assessment and diagnosis -- Research methods -- Anxiety, trauma and stressor-related and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders -- Somatic symptom and related disorders and dissociative disorders -- Mood disorders and suicide -- Disoders of neurovegetative function: feeding, eating and sleep-wake disorders -- Physical disorders and health psychology -- Sexual dysfunctions, paraphilic disorders and gender dysphoria -- Substance-related, addictive and impulse-control disorders -- Personality disorders -- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders -- Neurodevelopment diorders -- Neurocognitive disorders -- Mental health services: legal and ethical issues -- Positive psychology and abnormal psychology: a balanced approach.