Essentials Of Understanding Abnormal Behavior 3rd Edition David Sue, Derald Wing Sue, Diane M. Sue, Stanley Sue - Solutions

2. What are dissociations? Why do they occur, and how are they treated?
1. What are symptoms of depression and mania?
2. What are depressive disorders, what causes them, and how are they treated?
3. What are bipolar disorders, what causes them, and how are they treated?
1. What do we know about suicide?
2. How does suicide affect friends and family?
3. How is suicide unique in different age groups?
4. What might cause someone to commit suicide?
5. How can we prevent suicide?
1. What kinds of eating disorders exist?
2. What are some causes of eating disorders?
3. What are some treatment options for eating disorders?
4. What causes obesity and how is it treated?
1. What are substance-use disorders?
2. What substances are associated with addiction?
3. Why do people develop substance-use disorders?
4. What kinds of interventions and treatments for substance-use disorders are most effective?
5. Can behaviors such as gambling be addictive?
1. What are the symptoms of schizophrenia spectrum disorders?
2. Is there much chance of recovery from schizophrenia?
3. What causes schizophrenia?
4. What treatments are currently available for schizophrenia, and are they effective?
5. How do other psychotic disorders differ from schizophrenia?
1. How can we determine whether someone has a neurocognitive disorder?
2. What are the different types of neurocognitive disorders?
3. What are the causes of neurocognitive disorders?
4. What treatments are available for neurocognitive disorders?
1. What are normal sexual behaviors?
2. What do we know about normal sexual responses and sexual dysfunction?
3. What causes gender dysphoria, and how is it treated?
4. What are paraphilic disorders, what causes them, and how are they treated?
5. What factors are associated with rape?
1. Can one’s personality be pathological?
2. What traits are associated with personality disorders?
3. How does an antisocial personality develop and can it be changed?
4. What problems occur with personality assessment?
1. What internalizing disorders occur in childhood and adolescence?
2. What are the characteristics of externalizing disorders?
3. What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
1. What are the criteria used to judge insanity, and what is the difference between insanity and incompetency to stand trial?
2. Under what conditions can a person be involuntarily committed to a mental institution?
3. What rights do mental patients have with respect to treatment and care?
4. What legal and ethical issues guide treatment practices?
1 What clues suggested that Jared Loughner might have a mental disorder?
2 Recount the elements involved in describing, explaining, predicting, and treating abnormal behavior.
3 How does the DSM-5 define a mental disorder?
4 How common are mental disorders?
1 Why is it important to consider cultural and sociopolitical factors in determining abnormal behavior?
1 How do stigmatization and stereotypes affect individuals with mental disorders?
1 Describe how the rise of humanism and the reform movement altered our view and treatment of people who are mentally disturbed.
2 In what way did mesmerism or hypnosis reinforce the view that mental disorders could be psychological in nature?
3 Compare and contrast the basic assumptions of the biological and psychological points of view.
1 Explain why multicultural psychology is important to the study of abnormal psychology.
2 How does positive psychology represent the “other side of mental illness”?
3 How has the drug revolution changed the therapeutic landscape of the helping professions?
4 Why is the recovery movement important?
1 How does the multipath model differ from one-dimensional models?
2 Name and describe the four dimensions of the multipath model.
1 Describe the ways in which biology may play a role in mental disorders.
2 Describe three biological treatments for mental disorders.
1 Compare and contrast the psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic models with one another.
1 How might social class, gender, race and ethnicity, and acculturation influence the development of mental disorders?
2 In what ways are women in our society subjected to more stressors than men?
3 In what ways might poverty affect the mental health of those who are less affluent?
1 Describe the different groups used in an experimental study.
2 Compare and contrast case, correlational, experimental, analogue, and field studies.
3 Describe the difference between incidence and prevalence rates.
1 What kinds of information do psychologists gather when making a diagnosis?
2 Define reliability and describe different methods of determining if a test is reliable.
3 Define validity and describe different methods of determining if a test is valid.
1 Why are diagnostic and classification systems important?
2 What is the DSM and what are some criticisms of the most recent DSM?
1 Describe how phobias develop.
2 Give a brief description of the different types of phobias.
3 How are phobias treated?
1 Describe symptoms of panic disorder.
2 Describe how panic disorder develops.
3 Describe the elements of cognitive-behavioral treatment for panic disorder.
1 Describe the characteristics of GAD.
2 Summarize possible factors that cause GAD.
3 What are the different treatment options for GAD?
1 Describe the characteristics of OCD and related disorders.
2 What are some explanations regarding how OCD and related disorders develop?
3 Describe the biological and behavioral treatments for OCD and related disorders.
1 What are the major symptoms associated with AD, ASD and PTSD?
2 Compare and contrast PTSD with ASD.
3 What might PTSD be more prevalent among women and ethnic group members?
1 Describe the characteristics of each of the psychophysiological disorders(coronary heart disease, hypertension, headaches, and asthma).
2 In what ways are psychological factors involved in coronary heart disease, hypertension, headaches, and asthma?
3 In what way do biological stress responses influence different psychophysiological disorders?
4 In what ways do social or sociocultural factors contribute to psychophysiological disorders?
5 Compare different treatments for the psychophysiological disorders.
1 What are the characteristics of somatic symptom disorder?
2 How is illness anxiety disorder similar to and different from somatic symptom disorder?
3 Compare and contrast illness anxiety disorder with factitious disorder.
4 How do biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural factors interact and contribute to the development of somatic symptom disorders?
1 Describe the different types of dissociative amnesia and contrast them with depersonalization/derealization disorder.
2 Compare and contrast the post-traumatic and sociocognitive models of DID.
3 What are the treatment steps for DID?
4 Why is the DID diagnosis so controversial?

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