An engaging approach and captivating features encourage students to think critically about the discipline

Co-author Matthew Nock brings a new perspective to the Seventeenth Edition of this authoritative and established text. A recent MacArthur Award (aka, “Genius Grant”) recipient, Professor Nock provides fresh approaches to the discipline.

Revised content provides the most up-to-date coverage of DSM-5 diagnostic categories, classifications, and criteria

UPDATED! DSM-5 boxes offer the most up-to-date (DSM-5) diagnostic criteria for all of the disorders discussed. In a convenient and visually accessible form, these boxes provide a helpful study tool that reflects current diagnostic practice, and help students understand disorders in a real-world context.
UPDATED! Thinking Critically about DSM-5 boxes introduce students to the revised DSM and encourage them to think critically about the implications of the changes, many of which were contentious and controversial.

Student-focused pedagogy guides students as they learn

This new edition of Abnormal Psychology has been redesigned to reflect the newest and most relevant research findings, presented in a way that is engaging to the newest generation of students. The text narrative has been streamlined to decrease the length of each chapter while retaining all of the important information that students should be learning.
UPDATED! Extensive case studies of individuals with various disorders are integrated throughout the text, bringing important aspects of the disorders to life. These case studies also remind readers that the problems of abnormal psychology affect the lives of people from diverse backgrounds who have much in common with all of us. Many of the case studies are new to the Seventeenth Edition.
Reflecting the ever-changing field of abnormal psychology, hundreds of new references have been added, highlighting the discipline’s newest and most important research findings.

Updated content ensures an up-to-date learning experience
The Seventeenth Edition offers detailed coverage of the most exciting changes and advances occurring in the field. Highlights of new and updated content include the following:

The authors provide the most up-to-date and in-depth information about biological influences on the entire spectrum of behavioral abnormalities, while still maintaining a comprehensive and balanced biopsychosocial approach to understanding abnormal behavior.
The authors have significantly increased the focus on the manifestation and treatment of psychological disorders around the globe, using data from a recently completed cross-national series of studies in more than 20 different countries.
Throughout the text, the authors provide information about some of the newest ways in which researchers and clinicians are treating psychological disorders, such as via the use of new smartphone apps, brain stimulation treatments, and assistive therapeutic robots.
Chapter 3 offers a new and more accessible description of why correlation does not equal causation – and what does.
Chapter 5 provides a more broad and integrative approach to the health consequences of stress, including a focus on the mechanisms through which stress is thought to cause physical health problems.
Chapter 7 has been updated substantially and now includes more information about some of the problems most relevant to college students, such as suicide and self-injury.
Chapter 8 offers four new case studies, as well as two new highlight boxes. These illustrate recent neuroimaging research on patients with conversion disorder, as well as a very creative

Abnormal Psychology, Global Edition, 17th edition

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