Understanding Abnormal Behavior

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The first abnormal psychology book to present a thoroughly integrated multicultural perspective, Sue, Sue, and Sue's UNDERSTANDING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR, International Edition, continues to provide the most extensive coverage and integration of multicultural models, explanations, and concepts. Featuring scholarship of the highest quality, the text provides an inviting and stimulating look into abnormal psychology. A new integrative multipath model provides students with an organizational framework for understanding the numerous causes of mental disorders (biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural), the complexity of their interacting components, and the need to view disorders from a holistic framework. The authors draw on important contributions from various disciplines and theoretical stances, engaging students in understanding abnormal behavior as scientific and clinical endeavors, while providing insight into the tools that mental health professionals use to study and treat disorders. With nearly 800 new citations, this edition is thoroughly updated in its research and coverage and has a fresh design that makes the text even more approachable and appealing to students. It is accompanied by a helpful support package for instructors and students. Key Feature Critical-Thinking boxes (many of which are new or updated) provide factual evidence and thought-provoking questions that raise key issues in research, examine widely held assumptions about abnormal behavior, and challenge students' understanding of the text material. Myth vs. Reality discussions challenge and dispel students' preconceived notions about mental health issues. These discussions also illustrate the importance of checking beliefs that appear to be "common sense" against scientific facts. Chapter-opening outlines and Focus Questions provide a framework that stimulates active learning; with questions in mind, students begin thinking about the concepts they are about to explore. Chapter summaries keyed to the Focus Questions provide students with a concise recap of important concepts as well as tentative answers to the chapter opener's Focus Questions. Case studies and examples, many of which are new or updated, make issues of mental health and mental disorders come to life for students. Many of the cases are taken from actual clinical files and are clearly designated in the text's design. New to this Edition A new integrative multipath model provides students with an organizational framework for understanding the numerous causes of mental disorders (biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural), the complexity of their interacting components, and the need to view disorders from a holistic framework. An "Implications" section at the end of each chapter synthesizes the implications of the multipath perspective. Thoroughly updated with the latest trends and statistics in research and critical thinking, the ninth edition includes new or expanded information on eating disorders, learning disabilities, suicide, date rape, the growing ethnic and cultural diversity in the United States and its implications for mental health research and practice, research strategies and findings on genetic factors in mental disorders, the growing prevalence of psychoactive drug use in the United States, and implications of managed health care on mental health services and the use of evidence-based treatments. Material from the previous edition's Chapter 17 on therapeutic interventions has been integrated throughout the text where appropriate; the chapter is available in its entirety online. Did You Know? boxes in the margins capture students' interest by providing fascinating highlights of research-based information. New Controversy boxes, with critical-thinking questions for students to consider, address contentious issues that have wide implications for society. These boxes evoke alternative views, provoke discussion, and draw students into issues that help them better explore the wider meaning of abnormal behavior. Table of Contents 1. Abnormal Behavior. 2. Models of Abnormal Behavior. 3. Assessment and Classification of Abnormal Behavior. 4. The Scientific Method in Abnormal Psychology. 5. Anxiety Disorders. 6. Dissociative Disorders and Somatoform Disorders. 7. Stress Disorders. 8. Personality Disorders. 9. Substance-Related Disorders. 10. Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. 11. Mood Disorders. 12. Suicide. 13. Schizophrenia: Diagnosis and Etiology. 14. Cognitive Disorders. 15. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence. 16. Eating Disorders. 17. Legal and Ethical Issues in Abnormal Psychology.