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- Thinking Like a Clinician questions. These questions ask students to apply what
they have learned to other people and situations. These questions allow students to
test their knowledge of the chapter’s material; they may be assigned as homework
or used to foster small-group or class discussion.
Thinking like a clinician
Suppose you are a mental health clinician work-
ing in a hospital emergency room in the sum-
mer; a woman is brought in for you to evaluate.
She’s wearing a winter coat, and in the waiting
room, she talks—or shouts—to herself or an
imaginary person. You think that she may be
suffering from schizophrenia. What information
would you need in order to make that diagno-
sis? What other psychological disorders could,
with only brief observation, appear similar to
schizophrenia?- Key Terms. The fi nal element of Summing Up is a list of the key terms used in that
chapter—the terms that are presented in boldface in the text and are defi ned in the
marginal glossary—with the pages on which the defi nitions can be found. - At the very end of Summing Up, students are directed to the book-specifi c website,
http://www.worthpublishers.com/rosenberg, for more study aids and resources pertinent
to the chapter.
Integrated Gender and Cultural Coverage
The textbook has extensive culture and gender coverage integrated throughout the
entire textbook. The list of coverage and corresponding page numbers are too
numerous to list here, but you can fi nd this coverage—in two different indexes—one
for Culture and one for Gender—on Worth’s free book companion site, which can
be reached by going to http://www.worthpublishers.com/rosenberg. These indexes will
help you locate the many different places where we offer this coverage in order to
better facilitate learning in your classroom.Media and Supplements
Online Video Tool Kit for Abnormal Psychology
The Online Video Tool Kit for Abnormal Psychology spans the full range of
standard topics for a course in abnormal psychology, combining both research and
news footage from the BBC Motion Gallery and CBS News, as well as other great
sources. With its superb collection of brief (1 to 5 minutes) clips and emphasis on
the neuropsychosocial bases of behavior, the Online Video Tool Kit for Abnormal
Psychology gives students a fresh new way to experience the realities of living with
psychological disorders from a patient’s and a clinician’s perspective.
Within the Online Video Tool Kit for Abnormal Psychology, Worth Publishers
brings together some of the most famous and important psychology research and
news footage ever fi lmed—and matches it with specifi c areas of coverage in this
textbook. No other abnormal psychology video product available for student
purchase offers such a high-quality collection of clips.
Instructors can create assignments and customize their students’ experience
by annotating the descriptions that accompany each video clip. Or instructors can
choose to assign the Online Video Tool Kit for Abnormal Psychology to their students
without customizing any of the material. Video clips are keyed to the textbook and