Synopsis
Nolen-Hoeksema/Rector's
Abnormal Psychology gives a human face to the field of Abnormal Psychology. While maintaining a focus on the most current research in the field, this book also highlights the personal experiences of those with mental illness. Through compelling features like, "Extraordinary People" box, Case Studies, and a "Taking Psychology Personally" box, students will hear the human voice in what is often an overwhelming list of symptoms and research. This new edition will include more student study features to make it easier for students to appreciate the problems of those suffering from disorders, while also giving them the opportunity to move beyond surface learning to a deeper understanding of the science of abnormal psychology.
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About the Authors
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (1959–2013) In January 2013 we lost our esteemed author and friend, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. Susan was a renowned scholar, teacher, mentor, and academic leader. She was recognized internationally for her work on how people regulate their feelings and emotions and how particular patterns of thinking can make people vulnerable to and recover slowly from emotional problems, especially depression. Her research shaped the field’s perspective on depression in women and girls, and countless empirical studies and theoretical contributions followed as she developed her groundbreaking theory of rumination and depression. In her words: “My career has focused on two parallel goals. The first is to use empirical methods to address important social and mental health problems (depression, rumination, women’s mental health). The second goal is to disseminate psychological science. I also believe in taking science to the public, through my textbook on Abnormal Psychology and books for the general public on women’s mental health.” Susan taught at Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and Yale University.Susan’s work focused on depression, mood-regulation, and gender, for which she was recognized and received the David Shakow Early Career Award from Division 12, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Committee on Women of American Psychological Association, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, a Research Career Award, and multiple grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition, she was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, now the most highly cited journal in the field of clinical psychology. In addition to being an accomplished professor, scholar, teacher, and writer, Susan was a loving and devoted mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and mentor. Susan touched and inspired the lives of many people both professionally and personally, and she will be dearly missed.
Dr. Neil A. Rector completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1996 at the University of York in England. He was a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London and Psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital for the year 1995-1996. He returned to the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and completed post-doctoral fellowship training in the research and practice of cognitive-behavioural therapy. He was a staff Psychologist and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health between 1998 and August 2008. Dr. Rector is now a Research Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, Director of the Mood and Anxiety Treatment and Research Program and Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He remains affiliated with CAMH as a Clinician Scientist and is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
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