Clinical Psychology

not likely to come to the attention of mental health professionals. However, when a person’sbehavior becomes patently deviant, o ...

BOX5-1 Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Kenneth J. Sher, Ph.D. A psychopathologist is a scientist who studies how mental disor ...

field studies of the course of substance use disorders in young adults. I am particularly interested in the inter- play of the p ...

example, in the case of Dmitri, is there some- thing magical about an IQ of 64? Traditional practice sets the cutoff point at 70 ...

Subjective Distress We now shift the focus from the perceptions of the observer to the perceptions of the affected individual. H ...

any suggestion that he should seek therapy. Further- more, his lack of motivation for therapy would probably make it an unprofit ...

Not everyone whom we consider to be“disor- dered”reports subjective distress. For example, clin- icians sometimes encounter indi ...

both the individual and the clinician. For example, a lack of friendships or of relationships because of a lack of interpersonal ...

advantages and disadvantages, and no one criterion can be used as a gold standard. Some subjectivity is involved in applying any ...

BOX5-3 Clinical Psychologist Perspective: Elaine Walker, Ph.D. Elaine Walker is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and ...

debilitating. They typically have their onset in late adolescence or early adulthood, and thereby limit the individual’s opportu ...

The Importance of Diagnosis Before uncritically accepting this definition or taking for granted the utility of diagnosing and cl ...

suggests to us that the administration of an antipsy- chotic medication is more likely to be effective than is a course of psych ...

These changes included the use of explicit diagnostic criteria for mental disorders, a multiaxial system of diagnosis, a descri ...

T A B L E 5-2 A Condensed Version of theDSM-IV-TR Axis I: Clinical Disorders or Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical ...

Psychosocial and environmental problems relevant to diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis are indicated onAxis IV. Finally, a quan ...

Table 5-4 presents a summary of the eight major issues discussed below. Categories Versus Dimensions. Essentially, the mental di ...

this dimensional perspective highlights that our ability to react adaptively is a matter of degree. Bases of Categorization. To ...

from theDSMsystem was made. The demise of homosexuality as a disease entity occurred through a vote of the psychiatric membershi ...

Yet a mental health professional may feel strongly that the patient could benefit from admission (or perhaps has nowhere else to ...