Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders PDF

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Presenting the Human Experience of Psychological Disorders. In Richard Halgin and Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, students are shown the human side of Abnormal Psychology. Through the widespread use of current and highly relevant clinical case studies, the biographies and first-person quotations in the Real Stories feature, and the unique case media program Faces Interactive Online, students are presented with real-life portrayals of the disorders featured in the text. The new sixth edition includes updated research coverage and increased pedagogy, designed to maximize student comprehension. The text maintains the integrative approach to treatment using the biopsychosocial model, the lifespan approach, and the succinct coverage that have been the foundations of the text's success.

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• Hardcover: 576 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 6 edition (January 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007337069X
• ISBN-13: 978-0073370699
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 9 x 10.8 inches
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Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders PDF

I literally have never read a more convoluted, baffling book. The authors somehow find ways to relate extremely simple concepts as grammar puzzles that need to be decoded. Most of the book is written with a lifeless, bureaucratic passive voice that hides the information.

Nancy Drew, all the detectives on Law & Order, and the Hardy Boys would have a hard time finding the point of many of these sentences. In fact, what often happened to me was I would read the same sentence two or three times to figure out just what the book was trying to say, only to find that it was something so painfully obvious that I wondered if perhaps I had brain damage. This is a theme of this book: hiding ideas which should be simple to understand behind a curtain of unnecessary words and passive voice. For example, on page 28:

"Researchers trying to understand the specific mechanisms involved in models of genetic transmission have found it helpful to study measurable characteristics whose family patterns parallel the pattern of a disorder's inheritance, called biological markers."

Try saying that out loud without pausing for breath. Did you learn from it? I swear to god that's a direct quote it's too absurd to make up.

My advice to a friend trying to study from the same book was to read the book with a black marker to cross out all the unnecessary words or rewrite important material back to English from the pseudo-intellectual moon speak the authors use.

Can you imagine a family dinner with these people? I can:

Bobby: "Dad, can you pass the butter?