The Science and Treatment of Psychological Disorders blends theory and research with practice and clinical application to provide learners with a solid foundation in psychological disorders and develop their understanding with up-to-date and relevant research, examples, and contexts.
From its first edition, the focus of this book has always been on balancing contemporary research and clinical application while involving the learner in the problem-solving engaged in by clinicians and scientists. It continues to emphasize an integrative approach, showing how psychopathology is best understood by considering multiple perspectives―genetic, neuroscientific, cognitive-behavioral, and sociocultural―and how these varying perspectives produce the clearest accounting of the causes of these disorders, as well as provide insights into the best possible treatments.
With this new sixteenth edition, “Abnormal Psychology” is dropped from the title. The importance of stigma and mental illness is discussed throughout―never is this more important than now when many social ills such as gun violence are too easily blamed on mental illness while we continue to warehouse people with psychological disorders in jails at an astonishing rate.
AN INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA LEARNING EXPERIENCE
This textbook includes access to an interactive, multimedia e-text. Icons throughout the print book signal corresponding digital content in the e-text.
Case Study Videos and Pause and Ponder Activities: A collection of fourteen 7 to 10 minute Case Study Videos presents an encompassing view of a variety of psychological disorders, featuring people experiencing these disorders and their families describing symptoms from their own perspective. In addition, each video provides concise information about the available treatment options and commentary from a mental health professional. Each video is presented in the context of a Pause and Ponder activity with the following elements:
- Part I: Pause: Readers are asked to read several short examples of everyday life situations facing a person, or people, with a particular disorder and assess their own ability to empathize.
- Part II: Learn: Readers are directed to view the Case Study Video and answer a series of questions with interactive self-scoring.
- Part III: Ponder: Finally, readers are asked to respond to one or more open-ended questions and to reassess their ability to empathize.
Interactive Figures, Charts & Tables: Appearing throughout the enhanced e-text, interactive figures, process diagrams, and tables facilitate the study of complex concepts and processes and help students retain important information. Even many of the simplest figures are interactive to encourage online readers to pause and absorb the information they present before scrolling on to additional reading.
Interactive Self-Scoring Check Your Knowledge Questions and Practice Quizzes: Students can check their answers to the Check Your Knowledge questions at the end of each major chapter section instantly, and each chapter includes a self-scoring Practice Quiz to help prepare for graded assignments and exams.
Ann M. Kring is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.S. from Ball State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her internship in clinical psychology was completed at Bellevue Hospital and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, both in New York. From 1991 to 1998, she taught at Vanderbilt University. She joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999, served two terms as Director of the Clinical Science Program and Psychology Clinic, and was Chair of the Psychology Department from 2015 to 2020. She received a Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Berkeley in 2008. She was elected President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and President of the Society for Affective Science. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science.
She was given a Young Investigator Award by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Joseph Zubin Memorial Fund Award in recognition of her research on schizophrenia. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Experimental Psychologists, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her research has been supported by grants from the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program, NARSAD, and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is co-editor (with Denise Sloan) of Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology (Guilford Press) and co-author (with Janelle Caponigro, Erica Lee, and Sheri Johnson) of Bipolar Disorder for the Newly Diagnosed (New Harbinger Press). She is also the author of more than 130 articles and book chapters. Her current research focuses on emotion and psychopathology, with a specific interest in the emotional features, negative symptoms, and social factors of schizophrenia. As part of a follow-up study of children whose mothers were enrolled in a study in the early 1960s, she is also studying how early development might influence clinical, cognitive, social, and neural outcomes in late middle age.
Sheri L. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her B.A. from Salem College and her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, and she was a clinical assistant professor at Brown from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2008, she taught in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, where she was recognized three times with the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. In 1993, she received a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). She is an associate editor for Psychological Bulletin and a consulting editor for Clinical Psychological Science and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. She has served as President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Psychological Science.
Her work has been funded by NARSAD, the National Cancer Institute, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Wellcome Trust. She has authored over 300 publications, and her findings have been published in leading journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and American Journal of Psychiatry. She is co-editor or co-author of six books, including Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder (Guilford Press), Bipolar Disorder for the Newly Diagnosed (New Harbinger Press), Bipolar Disorder: Advances in Psychotherapy Evidence-Based Practice (Hogrefe Publishing), and Emotion and Psychopathology (American Psychological Association). Her work focuses on bipolar disorder, emotion, emotion-related disorders, and impulsivity.
