Understanding Abnormal Behavior - Hardcover

Sue, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618687017 ISBN 13: 9780618687015

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 2006

Synopsis

Abnormal Psychology by Sue, Sue, and Sue was the first text in its field to present a thoroughly integrated multicultural perspective; the Eighth Edition offers integration of multicultural models and the most extensive coverage available. This program provides students with an understanding of abnormal behavior as both a scientific and a clinical field, while offering insight into the tools used by mental health professionals to study and treat disorders. The text combines a student-friendly approach to understanding abnormal psychology with scholarship of the highest quality. This edition includes thoroughly updated research and case studies, and is accompanied by a comprehensive support package for both instructors and students.

• Mental Health & Society boxes address controversial issues with wide implications for our society. They are intended to stimulate critical thinking, evoke alternative views, provoke discussion, and draw students into issues that help them better explore the wider meaning of abnormal behavior in our society.
• Critical Thinking boxes provide factual evidence and thought-provoking questions that raise key issues in research, examine widely held assumptions about abnormal behavior, or challenge the student's own understanding of the text material.A web icon on many of the boxes indicates that there is a corresponding interactive exercise on the student web site.
• Additional features includes Myth vs. Reality discussions, Case Studies and Examples, Chapter-opening Outlines and Focus Questions, and integrated Chapter Summaries keyed to the Focus Questions.

About this title

About the Author

David Sue is professor emeritus of psychology at Western Washington University, where he is an associate of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research. He has served as the director of the Psychology Counseling Clinic and the Mental Health Counseling Program. He and his wife co-authored the book COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY and he is co-author of COUNSELING THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE: THEORY AND PRACTICE. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Washington State University. His research interests revolve around multicultural issues in individual and group counseling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618687017
• ISBN 13: 9780618687015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 622