Abnormal Psychology

Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment 99 information that the WAIS-IV and WISC-IV provide. Both of these tests include subtests that ...

100 CHAPTER 3 Although the MMPI-2 does help a clinician or researcher to understand the na- ture of various clinical disorders, ...

Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment 101 Herman Rorschach (1884–1922). This test includes ten inkblots, one on each of ten cards. T ...

102 CHAPTER 3 Assessing Social Factors Symptoms arise in a context, and part of a thorough clinical assessment is collecting inf ...

Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment 103 P S Note that the presence of certain distinctive characteristics in families with N a mem ...

104 CHAPTER 3 Hodes, & Rangel, 2005). Thus, the reported symptoms of the British teenagers of South Asian background may not ...

Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment 105 (a question that contemporary science is just beginning to try to answer). They look to an ...

106 CHAPTER 3 he drank so much and so chronically that when he stopped drinking he developed delirium tremens (also known as the ...

Clinical Diagnosis and Assessment 107 Summary of Diagnosing Psychological Disorders Among other purposes, classifi cation system ...

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109 L eon is a 45-year-old postal employee who was evaluated at a clinic. He claims to have felt constantly depressed since the ...

110 CHAPTER 4 A clinician might consider many different types of treatment for Leon’s depression and anxiety, depending both on ...

CHAPTER 4 Foundations of Treatment P S N P S N Although a given treatment targets a particular factor or set of factors, the tre ...

112 CHAPTER 4 4.1 • Using Medication to Change Brain Functioning Medications can alter events at the synapse, and thereby change ...

Foundations of Treatment 113 BananaStock/Jupiterimages Medications, particularly antidepressants, are prescribed for an ever wid ...

114 CHAPTER 4 2001). For short-term treatment of anxiety symptoms, psychiatrists may pre- scribebenzodiazepines (commonly referr ...

Foundations of Treatment 115 Biofeedback A technique by which a person is trained to bring normally involuntary or unconscious b ...

116 CHAPTER 4 and Older Populations Targeting Neurological Factors in Younger and Older Populations Patients at two ends of the ...

Foundations of Treatment 117 When older people actually are depressed, electroconvulsive therapy is often markedly more effectiv ...

118 CHAPTER 4 factors; we’ll consider psychodynamic therapy, client-centered therapy, and cognitive-behavior therapy. These trea ...