Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology
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Ronald Comer
RONALD J. COMER has been a professor in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 50 years, also serving for many years as director of Clinical Psychology Studies and as chair of the university's Institutional Review Board. In 2016 he transitioned to emeritus status at the university. He has received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, where his various courses in psychopathology were among the university's most popular.
Professor Comer is also Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has also been a practicing clinical psychologist and served as a consultant to numerous hospitals, family practice residency programs, and autism programs.
In addition to writing the textbooks Fundamentals of Psychopathology (eleventh edition), Psychopathology: Science and Practice (twelfth edition), Psychology Around Us (fourth edition), and Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (third edition), Professor Comer has published a range of journal articles and produced numerous widely used educational video programs, including The Higher Education Video Library Series, The Video Anthology for Psychopathology, The Worth Video Collection for Psychopathology, Video Segments in Neuroscience, Introduction to Psychology Video Clipboard, and Developmental Psychology Video Clipboard.
Professor Comer was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate student at Clark University. He currently lives in Florida with his wife, Marlene.
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Jonathan Comer
JONATHAN S. COMER is a professor of psychology at Florida International University, where he also directs the Mental Health Interventions and Novel Therapeutics (MINT) Program and the Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster-Affected Youth (NEW DAY). He is Past President of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of the American Psychological Association) and a leader in the field of child mental health. The author of over 250 scientific papers and chapters, he has received career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies for his research on innovative treatment methods, child anxiety and behavioral challenges, the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and the impact of traumatic stress, disasters, and public health crises on children.
In addition to Fundamentals of Psychopathology (eleventh edition) and Psychopathology: Science and Practice (twelfth edition), Professor Comer has authored Childhood Disorders (second edition) and edited The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology. He serves as Editor of the journal Behavior Therapy and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist.
Professor Comer was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester and a graduate student at Temple University. He currently lives in South Florida with his wife, Jami, and their children Delia and Emmett. He loves being dazzled by his daughter's stunning artwork and his son's electrifying basketball skills. He also enjoys playing and listening to music, painting rocks with his family, and keeping an eye on the often-frustrating Philadelphia sports teams that his father taught him to love/hate.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Models of Abnormality
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 4: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
Chapter 5: Disorders of Trauma and Stress
Chapter 6: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Chapter 7: Suicide
Chapter 8: Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms
Chapter 9: Eating Disorders
Chapter 10: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
Chapter 11: Sexual Disorders and Gender Variations
Chapter 12: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents
Chapter 15: Disorders of Aging and Cognition
Chapter 16: Law, Society, and Mental Health
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Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
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- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
Featured in Achieve
Worth Video Collection for Abnormal Psychology
Available free to adopters, this extraordinary collection brings the videos youve been looking for into one convenient location. There are over 130 clips to choose from, spanning the full spectrum of abnormal psychology topics and featuring both groundbreaking research and captivating stories of real people experiencing psychological dysfunction. As focal points in lectures or as engaging homework assignments, these videos are an effective way of helping students develop deeper connections to the field of abnormal psychology.
Clinical Choices
These immersive learning activities present a mix of video, audio, note-taking and assessment functionality. Students take the role of clinician, engaging with virtual clients to identify the symptoms of psychological disorders (based on DSM-5 criteria) and think critically about diagnosis and treatment options.
NEW IN THE TEXT
COVID-19 coverage. The new edition reflects the massive impact the COVID 19 pandemic has had on all aspects of mental health, including coverage of the disproportionate impact on marginalized communities and the shift towards telemental health.
New Developmental Psychopathology figures bring the authors’ continued coverage of the developmental psychopathology perspective to life by illustrating the ideas of multifinality and equifinality with eye-catching visual representations.
New Brain Circuitry art helps students visualize the brain as a system of interconnections and interactions, rather than static and isolated regions, and makes it easier to comprehend this important aspect of abnormal psychology research.
Authors
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Ronald Comer
RONALD J. COMER has been a professor in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 50 years, also serving for many years as director of Clinical Psychology Studies and as chair of the university's Institutional Review Board. In 2016 he transitioned to emeritus status at the university. He has received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton, where his various courses in psychopathology were among the university's most popular.
Professor Comer is also Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has also been a practicing clinical psychologist and served as a consultant to numerous hospitals, family practice residency programs, and autism programs.
In addition to writing the textbooks Fundamentals of Psychopathology (eleventh edition), Psychopathology: Science and Practice (twelfth edition), Psychology Around Us (fourth edition), and Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (third edition), Professor Comer has published a range of journal articles and produced numerous widely used educational video programs, including The Higher Education Video Library Series, The Video Anthology for Psychopathology, The Worth Video Collection for Psychopathology, Video Segments in Neuroscience, Introduction to Psychology Video Clipboard, and Developmental Psychology Video Clipboard.
Professor Comer was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and a graduate student at Clark University. He currently lives in Florida with his wife, Marlene.
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Jonathan Comer
JONATHAN S. COMER is a professor of psychology at Florida International University, where he also directs the Mental Health Interventions and Novel Therapeutics (MINT) Program and the Network for Enhancing Wellness in Disaster-Affected Youth (NEW DAY). He is Past President of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of the American Psychological Association) and a leader in the field of child mental health. The author of over 250 scientific papers and chapters, he has received career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies for his research on innovative treatment methods, child anxiety and behavioral challenges, the intergenerational transmission of psychopathology, and the impact of traumatic stress, disasters, and public health crises on children.
In addition to Fundamentals of Psychopathology (eleventh edition) and Psychopathology: Science and Practice (twelfth edition), Professor Comer has authored Childhood Disorders (second edition) and edited The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology. He serves as Editor of the journal Behavior Therapy and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He is also a practicing clinical psychologist.
Professor Comer was an undergraduate at the University of Rochester and a graduate student at Temple University. He currently lives in South Florida with his wife, Jami, and their children Delia and Emmett. He loves being dazzled by his daughter's stunning artwork and his son's electrifying basketball skills. He also enjoys playing and listening to music, painting rocks with his family, and keeping an eye on the often-frustrating Philadelphia sports teams that his father taught him to love/hate.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Models of Abnormality
Chapter 3: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Chapter 4: Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders
Chapter 5: Disorders of Trauma and Stress
Chapter 6: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Chapter 7: Suicide
Chapter 8: Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms
Chapter 9: Eating Disorders
Chapter 10: Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
Chapter 11: Sexual Disorders and Gender Variations
Chapter 12: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders
Chapter 13: Personality Disorders
Chapter 14: Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents
Chapter 15: Disorders of Aging and Cognition
Chapter 16: Law, Society, and Mental Health
Product Updates
New!
Achieve for Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology
Achieve sets a whole new standard for integrating assessments, activities, and analytics into your teaching. It brings together all of the high quality features that instructors and students love about its predecessor LaunchPad—interactive e-book, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments, immersive learning activities, extensive instructor resources—in a powerful new platform that offers:
- A cleaner, more intuitive, mobile-friendly interface
- Powerful analytics
- Self-regulated learning and goal-setting surveys
- A fully integrated iClicker classroom response system, with questions available for each unit or the option to integrate your own
Featured in Achieve
Worth Video Collection for Abnormal Psychology
Available free to adopters, this extraordinary collection brings the videos youve been looking for into one convenient location. There are over 130 clips to choose from, spanning the full spectrum of abnormal psychology topics and featuring both groundbreaking research and captivating stories of real people experiencing psychological dysfunction. As focal points in lectures or as engaging homework assignments, these videos are an effective way of helping students develop deeper connections to the field of abnormal psychology.
Clinical Choices
These immersive learning activities present a mix of video, audio, note-taking and assessment functionality. Students take the role of clinician, engaging with virtual clients to identify the symptoms of psychological disorders (based on DSM-5 criteria) and think critically about diagnosis and treatment options.
NEW IN THE TEXT
COVID-19 coverage. The new edition reflects the massive impact the COVID 19 pandemic has had on all aspects of mental health, including coverage of the disproportionate impact on marginalized communities and the shift towards telemental health.
New Developmental Psychopathology figures bring the authors’ continued coverage of the developmental psychopathology perspective to life by illustrating the ideas of multifinality and equifinality with eye-catching visual representations.
New Brain Circuitry art helps students visualize the brain as a system of interconnections and interactions, rather than static and isolated regions, and makes it easier to comprehend this important aspect of abnormal psychology research.
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Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learnings breakthrough platform, Achieve, the landmark new edition of Ron and Jon Comers Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology surveys the latest developments in the field, including up-to-the-moment research on the psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first introduction to abnormal psychology to examine the growing body of research on the pandemics effects on a range of disorders, immune system functioning, family abuse, the shift towards telemental health, and the disproportionate burden on poor persons, members of minority groups, and others.
This edition also carries forward the Comers trademark approach, balancing coverage of major clinical perspectives with a deep empathy for individuals living with mental disorders. The authors further expand their multicultural perspective, address such topics as the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic groups in clinical research, diagnostic bias, and many more. Finally, the Comers include enhanced coverage of the developmental psychopathology perspective, brain circuitry, and topics related to technology throughout.
With Achieve, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable and up-to-date. The e-textbook and assessment tools in Achieve reflect updates to the DSM-5-TR, including new coverage of prolonged grief disorder, revised diagnostic criteria, and more.
Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology is also available to package (in print or electronically) with Ethan Gorenstein and Ronald Comers Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology, Third Edition! See the catalog page for more information.
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Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology
Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learnings breakthrough platform, Achieve, the landmark new edition of Ron and Jon Comers Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology surveys the latest developments in the field, including up-to-the-moment research on the psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic. This is the first introduction to abnormal psychology to examine the growing body of research on the pandemics effects on a range of disorders, immune system functioning, family abuse, the shift towards telemental health, and the disproportionate burden on poor persons, members of minority groups, and others.
This edition also carries forward the Comers trademark approach, balancing coverage of major clinical perspectives with a deep empathy for individuals living with mental disorders. The authors further expand their multicultural perspective, address such topics as the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic groups in clinical research, diagnostic bias, and many more. Finally, the Comers include enhanced coverage of the developmental psychopathology perspective, brain circuitry, and topics related to technology throughout.
With Achieve, our most powerful learning option is also our most affordable and up-to-date. The e-textbook and assessment tools in Achieve reflect updates to the DSM-5-TR, including new coverage of prolonged grief disorder, revised diagnostic criteria, and more.
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