Psychopathology and Mental Distress: Contrasting Perspectives (2nd ed.) offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the assessment and treatment of mental health. The book retains important diagnostic perspectives, including the DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 and PDM, but also widens the scope of coverage beyond mainstream psychiatric models to include psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural and therapeutic approaches. Contemporary and well-balanced, this book provides an even-handed and holistic foundation, allowing students to develop a strong critical mindset while retaining a robust research-driven orientation.
This book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in psychopathology, mental health, clinical psychology, or abnormal psychology. It is available in hardback, paperback, and electronic formats.
Description
This groundbreaking core textbook offers a comprehensive overview of different approaches to the causes, assessment and treatment of psychological disorders. The book includes important diagnostic frameworks, including the new DSM-5-TR, ICD-11 and PDM, but also widens the scope of coverage beyond mainstream psychiatric models to include psychological, biological, historical, sociocultural and therapeutic approaches.
Contemporary and well-balanced, this book provides an even-handed and holistic foundation, allowing students to develop a strong critical mindset while retaining a robust research-driven orientation.
This new edition:
– features an innovative structure organized by presenting problem, examining each in a broad context of traditional psychiatric and alternative approaches
– is grounded in lived experience of disorder: shining a spot-light on service-users through ‘Case Examples’ scenarios and ‘Lived Experience’ perspective pieces
– Supports student learning and critical thinking through engaging ‘Controversial Question’ and ‘In Depth’ features
– Features an attractive new layout and plenty of colour illustrations
– Is supported by impressive online support features including lecture slides, a test bank, instructor manual, video library, student study questions, self-test quizzes, flashcard activities and more.
Now thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in research and clinical practice, along with enhanced in-text and online pedagogy to support instructors and learners, this book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on abnormal psychology, psychopathology, mental health or clinical psychology courses.
Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1 CONCEPTUAL, HISTORICAL, AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
2 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
3 DIAGNOSIS, FORMULATION, AND ASSESSMENT
4 PSYCHOSIS
5 DEPRESSION AND MANIA
6 ANXIETY, OBSESSIONS, AND COMPULSIONS
7 TRAUMA, STRESS, AND LOSS
8 DISSOCIATION AND SOMATIC COMPLAINTS
9 FEEDING AND EATING PROBLEMS
10 SEXUAL FUNCTIONING AND GENDER IDENTITY
11 SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION
12 PERSONALITY ISSUES
13 DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR AND ATTACHMENT
14 COGNITIVE, COMMUNICATION, AND MOTOR PROBLEMS
15 SLEEP AND ELIMINATION DIFFICULTIES
16 SUICIDE, ETHICS, AND LAW
APPENDIX: DIAGNOSING THE CASE EXAMPLES
REFERENCES
Raskin has accomplished what previously would have taken multiple high-end reference manuals to accomplish. Namely, the blending of a biopsychosocial model and the incorporation of an international perspective into the same text on psychopathology. In fact, calling it a ‘text’ minimizes both its scope and its broad applicability. Raskin views psychopathology and mental distress from the biological, psychological, and social lenses while at the same time recognizing that the DSM-5-TR is only one effective method for the diagnosis of such disorders. In doing so, Raskin infuses history, classification, diagnosis, cultural issues, and contemporary understanding into the work. This will likely become a standard by which other psychopathology texts are compared.
This up-to-date and comprehensive textbook offers multiple perspectives on psychopathology and mental distress, including those of people with lived experience. This textbook does not shy away from some of the trickier contemporary debates and questions about mental distress. A valuable resource for psychology students – or anyone interested in mental health!
Dr. Raskin’s book will be the new standard psychopathology text in the education and training of mental health practitioners. This is the best review of the history, theories, diagnostic systems, measures, and case examples of the various mental disorders currently available. No other text covers so much ground in such an interesting and readable manner.
Jonathan Raskin’s Psychopathology and Mental Distress is a one-of-a-kind textbook that fills a major gap in the literature on mental disorders. First, it is the only textbook on the market that successfully covers a wide range of approaches, including biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives, in a fair-minded way which carefully examines the strengths and weakness of each approach. The sections on the psychological approaches also provide a rare survey of a broad range of theories of psychopathology, including psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic approaches. In addition, Raskin brings an unparalleled expertise in various nosologies of psychopathology, and he expands the reader’s appreciation of a wide range of diagnostic practices that go beyond the usual focus on the DSM-5. The textbook is written in a lucid style that lends itself to use in undergraduate classes as well as more advanced graduate courses in psychopathology. Raskin’s text is one that I will be using in my doctoral-level course in psychopathology, because it provides the broadest possible scope to the study of mental distress and offers essential conceptual tools to help students think critically about conventional approaches to diagnosis.
Instructors have numerous choices when selecting a textbook for a course on psychopathology and mental disorders. Fortunately, their choices are considerably narrowed when considering Raskin’s remarkable achievement in this volume. Every key area of psychopathology is covered thoroughly, but that is just the beginning. Rather than being solely tethered to classical classificatory rubrics, Raskin brings in the latest perspectives in the field, such as the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). This new edition of Raskin’s scholarly and progressive textbook is most welcome, and very likely to have a considerable impact on the training of the next generation of students and professionals in diverse mental health disciplines.
Raskin’s writing style is both enjoyable to read and accessible to students, without sacrificing a comprehensive presentation of the current data on psychopathology. His strong appreciation of the socio-historical context, infused throughout the text, is incredibly important for students in the field.”