Abnormal Psychology: Perspectives

by David J.A. Dozois

Abnormal Psychology: Perspectives, the successful text from an expert team of Canadian editors and contributors, is aimed at a Canadian undergraduate audience. While recognising the best of international scholarship, it also showcases the world-class scholarship originating in our own country. With case studies, legal and ethical issues, prevention programs, ground-breaking research, and the history of abnormal psychology in this country - all important topics are considered from the perspective of people who study, live, and work in Canada.

In this newest edition, an increasingly applied approach has been added, to place greater emphasis on the conceptual approaches and therapeutic interventions that have garnered the most empirical support in the most recent research literature. As well, this edition is augmented by MyPsychKit, an online student resource aimed at helping students with everything from assessment to understanding. A MyPsychKit access code card is supplied with every new copy.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Read For School, Reference

648 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Lizzy Li]

- very unnecessarily dense and lengthy
- dislike the 2 column formatting
- more pictures and random filler text could have been used
- also the openings to each chapter were sometimes too uncomfy for me to read and i did not quite know what to do with myself after reading them

i enjoyed the cow butchering prince story tho (it gave me a chuckle)

[ani]

for a low low price of $20,000 i, a dsm-5 expert, can diagnose you. credentials? reading this entire textbook and getting an A in my psychopathology class

[Somer Schaffer]

outdated edition (DSM-IV) used

[Scout Collins]

I don't really know how to rate this book. (I read it for school.)
It was interesting and thorough, but some of the chapters were kind of long.
I found some sections more interesting than others, but this was more to do with what I find interesting and less to do with the writing.
Book very much favoured/was biased towards CBT as the superior therapy over all others--which I don't think was objective.

[Carley]

Some sections are repetitive but overall a decent and painless textbook.

[Kristen Hovet]

Well-written, but sometimes I question the organization of the chapters.