The Physiological Bases of Cognitive And Behavioral Disorders - Softcover

Weyandt, Lisa L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805847197 ISBN 13: 9780805847192

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Up to twenty percent of the American population suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder, and cross-national studies suggest a high prevalence of such disorders elsewhere. In recent decades, advances in our knowledge of the brain are causing us to question many of the theories underlying traditional approaches to diagnosing and treating these disorders. Researchers in diverse fields--molecular genetics, behavioral, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, and neurology--have contributed to the advances.

The new knowledge that has been amassed should inform work with clients, but for most practitioners and practitioners-in-training, who lack specialized background, it has been difficult to grasp.

In this book, specifically designed to meet the needs of graduate students in clinical, counseling, and school psychology programs, Lisa Weyandt offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, readable overview of our current understanding of the biological bases of psychopathology and its implications for intervention. Early chapters concisely and clearly explain the basics of brain structure and function and current research techniques; they set the stage for chapters examining each major group of disorders. An extensive art program underlines the important points.

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The strengths of this text are apparent on several levels, from scope of coverage and readability to organization and presentation....the whole text is superb....readers will find that the audience for this book extends well beyond the graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology for whom it is intended; the book promises to inform seasoned researchers and clinicians. Simply put, this book is a veritable primer on the physiology of abnormal psychology and is the first of its kind to provide the type of current, thorough integration of research that will inform future treatments and research.
—PsycCRITIQUES

It is through the interplay of the multiple ways of knowing surveyed by this text that the new paradigms of brain function that we so badly need will emerge. Ironically and wonderfully, it is much more likely that such new paradigms will be conceived by members of the generation of students who will be introduced to these topics by this comprehensive text, than by one of the authors cited in its list of references. And that is as it should be.
—F. Xavier Castellanos, M.D.
From the Foreword, New York University, Child Study Center

...extremely well-written....organized in a fashion that makes conceptual and pedagogical sense....represents excellent scholarship in that ideas and concepts are delineated only in relation to the available research literature; there is very little non-empirical speculation...in these pages...
—George J. DuPaul, Ph.D.
Lehigh University

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805847197
• ISBN 13: 9780805847192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383