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Abnormal Psychology, 5th Canadian Edition

ISBN: 978-1-118-80561-9

December 2013

768 pages

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Description

Abnormal Psychology, 5th Canadian Edition will provide your students with the most up-to-date, relevant and reliable content available in an abnormal psychology undergraduate textbook. Professors can trust that with Davison 5e their students have the most comprehensive and accurate content and research coverage available in a textbook providing them the foundation they need to succeed in their Canadian psychology studies.

Based upon reviewer feedback, sections of the text have been updated extensively to incorporate numerous new research developments, and many new cases have been added to illustrate specific disorders. The text fully integrates changes to the DSM-5 and places a stronger emphasis on tying themes to emerging research findings. Over 900 new international and Canadian references have been added to this edition.
New to Edition
  • Fully integrated DSM-5 content. We have worked to identify critical areas that will affect the organization of our text. For a full list of DSM-5 revisions please ask your Wiley representative.
  • Student Issues Box is new for this edition. Focuses on university/college students issues
  • Order of Chapters: 3 (Classification and Diagnosis) and 4 (Clinical Assessment Procedures) are switched in this new edition to better reflect the logical progression of assessment before classification and diagnosis.
  • References have been updated throughout
Features
  • Currency: Excels in its integration of current research. Davison, Blankstein, Flett, and Neale include one of the largest and most current collections of international and Canadian references of any abnormal psychology text.
  • Focus on Discovery boxes provide interesting, in-depth discussions of specialized topics related to the text material. These allow students to deepen their understanding and strengthen their analysis skills.
  • Updated Cases: Each revision offers many new cases that illustrate specific disorders.
  • Approach: Follows the widely praised scientific clinical approach that balances clinical and empirical/experimental coverage.
  • Critical Thinking: Analyzes research, rather than simply citing it, encouraging students to think critically about what they are learning and to develop a framework for evaluating research evidence.
  • Topically Innovative: Provides the most comprehensive coverage of aging available (Chapter 16), an important topic first pioneered by an earlier edition of the text. Full chapter on outcomes and issues in psychological intervention