Characteristics of Assessment Tools.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Intro -- Chapter 1 Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present -- What Is Psychological Abnormality? -- Deviance -- Distress -- Dysfunction -- Danger -- The Elusive Nature of Abnormality -- What Is Treatment? -- How Was Abnormality Viewed and Treated in the Past? -- Ancient Views and Treatments -- Greek and Roman Views and Treatments -- Europe in the Middle Ages: Demonology Returns -- The Renaissance and the Rise of Asylums -- The Nineteenth Century: Reform and Moral Treatment -- The Early Twentieth Century: The Somatogenic and Psychogenic Perspectives -- Recent Decades and Current Trends

How Are People with Severe Disturbances Cared For? -- How Are People with Less Severe Disturbances Treated? -- A Growing Emphasis on Preventing Disorders and Promoting Mental Health -- Multicultural Psychology -- The Increasing Influence of Insurance Coverage -- What Are Today's Leading Theories and Professions? -- Technology and Mental Health -- Moving Forward -- Summing Up -- Chapter 2 Research in Abnormal Psychology -- What Do Clinical Researchers Do? -- The Case Study -- How Are Case Studies Helpful? -- What Are the Limitations of Case Studies? -- The Correlational Method

Describing a Correlation -- When Can Correlations Be Trusted? -- What Are the Merits of the Correlational Method? -- The Experimental Method -- The Control Group -- Random Assignment -- Masked Design -- Alternative Research Designs -- Matched Designs -- Natural Experiments -- Analogue Experiments -- Single-Case Experiments -- Longitudinal Studies -- Epidemiological Studies -- Protecting Human Participants -- Keeping an Eye on Research Methods -- Summing Up -- Chapter 3 Models of Abnormality -- The Biological Model -- How Do Biological Theorists Explain Abnormal Behavior? -- Biological Treatments

Assessing the Biological Model -- The Psychodynamic Model -- How Did Freud Explain Normal and Abnormal Functioning? -- How Do Other Psychodynamic Explanations Differ from Freud's? -- Psychodynamic Therapies -- Assessing the Psychodynamic Model -- The Cognitive-Behavioral Model -- The Behavioral Dimension -- The Cognitive Dimension -- The Cognitive-Behavioral Interplay -- New Wave Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies -- Assessing the Cognitive-Behavioral Model -- The Humanistic-Existential Model -- Rogers' Humanistic Theory and Therapy -- Gestalt Theory and Therapy -- Spiritual Views and Interventions

Existential Theories and Therapy -- Assessing the Humanistic-Existential Model -- The Sociocultural Model: Family-Social and Multicultural Perspectives -- How Do Family-Social Theorists Explain Abnormal Functioning? -- Family-Social Treatments -- How Do Multicultural Theorists Explain Abnormal Functioning? -- Multicultural Treatments -- Assessing the Sociocultural Model -- Integrating the Models: The Developmental Psychopathology Perspective -- Summing Up -- Chapter 4 Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment -- Clinical Assessment: How and Why Does the Client Behave Abnormally?