Abnormal Psychology 18th Edition JAMES N. BUTCHER - Solutions

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Identify the occupations that play a key role in the well-being of people. Explain these roles.
What is the importance of planning in reducing and/or eliminating mental health problems?
What are the specific mental health risk factors in job design and conditions of work? What are employee assistance programs (EAPs)?
Identify the key functions of professional organizations in the field of mental health.
Explain the irresistible impulse rule and the Durham rule.
Name some disorders that are associated with an increased risk of violent behavior? What factors determine the accuracy of a clinician’s assessment of future violence in a client?
Why is it difficult to find an ethnically matched therapist?What is culturally informed psychotherapy?
What is the focus of structural family therapy?How are new technologies being used today to enhance the delivery of effective interventions?
What are the benefits of combining psychosocial interventions with psychiatric medications?
What are some of the issues involved with the use of psychotropic drugs?
What is meant by third-party ratings? Is the use of client ratings to determine change a reliable source of information?
In what ways can an effective psychotherapist bring about positive changes in a client?
Can children with learning disorders be treated successfully?
Explain the cause of specific learning disorders.
What are the clinical features of Tourette’s disorder?
Describe the attentional, social, and speech deficits in children with autism.
Comment on the brain development of children with ADHD.
What are the different treatments or approaches used after a traumatic brain injury?
Describe the changes in personality after a traumatic brain injury. What are the predictors of clinical outcome after such an injury?
Describe the clinical symptoms following a head injury. What happens when a person goes into coma after a severe head injury?
Explain retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia citing examples.
Why are immigrants considered to be at a higher risk of developing schizophrenia?
What role does expressed emotion (EE) play in the relapse of schizophrenia?
How is the overall organization of cells in the brain of those with schizophrenia compromised? Explain citing research evidence.
Does schizophrenia involve problems with white matter? How do these patients perform in neurocognitive tests?
What is the peak time for the onset of schizophrenia?
What is the main characteristic of schizophrenia?
Why have common female sexual dysfunctions been studied less than male sexual dysfunctions?
Identify the main goals of treatment of sex offenders, and describe the different treatment approaches.
What two components characterize gender dysphoria?
Define paraphilia, and cite four paraphilias recognized in the DSM, along with their associated features.
What were the research findings on the mental problems of gay men and lesbians? How were these findings explained?
What are the various biological and psychological factors that cause different kinds of personality disorders?
Discuss the five-factor model of personality disorders elaborating different facets.
What are the characteristics that must be taken into account for the diagnosis of personality disorders?
Explain the opiate theory of addiction. What does the reward deficiency syndrome hypothesis suggest?
What are some of the withdrawal symptoms noticed in people addicted to opiates and heroin?
Describe the treatment approach to alcoholism adopted by the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)program.
Discuss the different approaches for treating conversion disorder.
Critically evaluate the Freudian theory of conversion symptoms caused by the conversion of sexual conflicts.
Describe the range of sensory and motor symptoms in conversion disorder.
How effective is bariatric surgery for morbidly obese people?
What are the kinds of health problems that obese people are at an increased risk for? Is being obese a personal choice?
With the help of a research study, explain how weight-based discrimination is likely to operate against women who are obese.
Why is the dropout rate from therapy high in patients with anorexia nervosa? Are antipsychotic medications effective in the treatment of anorexia nervosa?
Discuss how a negative effect is predictive of a high risk for developing an eating disorder later in life.
What are some of the diagnosable psychiatric conditions associated with eating disorders?
Discuss the cultural variants on anxiety disorder in Nigeria, India, and China.
Describe the cognitive and physiological components of anxiety. What is the adaptive value of anxiety?
What do you understand by the “fight or flight”response of the autonomic nervous system? Explain the components of fear and panic.
Citing evidence from neuroimaging research, explain the differences in the brain activity of patients with unipolar and bipolar disorders.
Distinguish between the symptoms of the depressive episodes in people with unipolar and bipolar disorders.
Distinguish between the symptoms of hypomanic and depressed phase of cyclothymic disorder.
Explain the key features of major depressive disorders.Is there a co-occurrence of depression and anxiety?
Why are the rates of unipolar depression found to be higher in lower socioeconomic groups?
Elaborate on the behavioral, mental, and physical symptoms during a manic episode.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an unstructured diagnostic interview.
Explain the ethical implications of cultural bias and the theoretical orientation of a clinician.
How many scales does the MMPI-2 have? What are the different dimensions covered in the scales?
Describe the nature of the valuable information provided to medical scientists by PET scans.
What do you understand by reliability and validity of a psychological test? Does good reliability in itself guarantee validity?
What does an adequate assessment include?Describe the personality characteristics that need to be taken into account during an assessment?
Critically evaluate the effectiveness of psychological debriefing for people exposed to traumatic situations.
How can maladaptive responses to stress be reduced? Explain citing examples.
Why might higher pre-trauma cognitive abilities provide protection against PTSD?
How does prolonged unemployment cause adjustment disorder? How do people with chronic unemployment cope with it?
How are depression and heart disease related?
What are the chief characteristics of Type D personality type?
How does experiencing stress affect telomeres?Explain the effect of exercise on telomeres.
In what ways were hypnotism and hysteria related and due to suggestion according to Bernheim and Liebeault?
What was the original impetus behind the deinstitutionalization policy? Explain the nature of problems created by deinstitutionalization for patients.
Describe the nature of mental hospital care in the twentieth century and the concern for reform in psychiatric hospitals.
Why was moral management in asylums abandoned?
In what ways are the effects of stress manifested across different cultures?
Describe the effect of parental abuse or maltreatment on children’s emotional, linguistic, and social functioning.
What does genotype-environment correlation refer to? In what different ways may an individual’s genotype shape their environment?
What are the three different perspectives which are important considerations to study depression?
Distinguish between distal risk factors and proximal risk factors leading to depression.
Describe the different phases of intervention in the ABAB design. What is the reasoning behind the second A phase?
Distinguish between retrospective and prospective research strategies. What are the pitfalls of adopting a retrospective research strategy in the case of people experiencing a disorder?
Why is it important to formulate and test hypothesis?
What are the different approaches of collecting self-report data? How accurate and truthful is this data?
Why have admissions to mental hospitals decreased substantially in recent times?
What are the various advantages and disadvantages of classification of disorders?
How can statistically rare behaviors be considered abnormal?
Summarize the challenges that people face in advancing mental health improvement in contemporary societies.
Describe the national and international organizations that promote efforts for mental health.
Explain the criteria that are used to determine if a person can be judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
Describe the legal rights that are now afforded to patients with mental disorders.
Discuss the implications of the Tarasoff decision for practicing clinicians.
Summarize the criteria and procedures involved in involuntary commitment.
Explain the role played by inpatient mental health facilities and aftercare programs.
Describe the importance of prevention in mental health care and the major approaches to prevention.
Describe three biological approaches used to treat abnormal behavior.
Explain the roles that social values and culture play in psychological treatment.
List the psychological approaches most often used to treat abnormal behavior.
Describe some of the factors that must be considered to provide optimal treatment.
Explain how the success of psychological treatment is measured.
Describe who seeks psychological treatment and what the most common goals are.
Discuss how the treatment of youth differs from that of adults.

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