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With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by LaunchPad, Comer’s widely adopted textbook shows students where the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today. In addition to a thorough updating, the new...
With Macmillan’s superior content delivered by LaunchPad, Comer’s widely adopted textbook shows students where the study and treatment of psychological disorders stand today. In addition to a thorough updating, the new edition employs some extraordinary interactive tools to bring students face to face with the realities of psychological dysfunction, organized for easy access and assignability.
Updates to this edition include:
InfoCentral infographics provide visual representations of data related to key topics and concepts in each chapter. They help students recognize trends and patterns and make connections between related topics, as well as offer fascinating snippets of information to spur interest in chapter topics
MindTech gives special attention to particularly provocative technological trends in engaging and enlightening ways. Critical Thought questions ask students to reflect on the effects of technology on mental health, as well as its use in innovative treatments for psychological disorders.
PsychWatch emphasizes the effect of culture on mental disorders and treatment with examples from movies, the news, and real lives.
Trending… focuses on trending topics in abnormal psychology, with accompanying questions that ask students to think critically about these issues and consider different viewpoints.
Critical Thought appears within the narrative of each chapter, asking students think critically about the material they have just read.
ONLINE LaunchPad Help students get better results. Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, LaunchPad gives students a complete e-book with all interactive features including, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize content for your syllabus, create presentations and lectures, assign and assess readings and activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.
Featured in LaunchPad Clinical Choices 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.
IN THE TEXTBOOK InfoCentral infographics provide visual representations of data related to key topics and concepts in each chapter. They help students recognize trends and patterns and make connections between related topics, as well as offer fascinating snippets of information to spur interest in chapter topics.
MindTech gives special attention to particularly provocative technological trends in engaging and enlightening ways. Critical Thought questions ask students to reflect on the effects of technology on mental health, as well as its use in innovative treatments for psychological disorders.
PsychWatch emphasizes the effect of culture on mental disorders and treatment with examples from movies, the news, and real lives.
Trending... focuses on trending topics in abnormal psychology, with accompanying questions that ask students to think critically about these issues and consider different viewpoints.
Critical Thought appears within the narrative of each chapter, asking students think critically about the material they have just read.s.
Updated Clinical Choices 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 Chapter 7, Depressive and Bipolar Disorders combines coverage that was previously in separate chapters on these disorders and their treatment.
Comprehensive addition of COVID-19 pandemic-related material and findings throughout the book, including ties between the pandemic and PTSD, anxiety disorders, depression, suicide, sexual functioning, family abuse, and substance abuse; special impact of the pandemic on children; and the pandemic-related shift toward telemental health instead of in-person treatment in the clinical field.
Enhancement of every pathology chapter's discussion of the Developmental Psychopathology perspective, including the addition of many enlightening, pedagogical drawings and pieces of art that help readers better understand the perspective's explanations.
Enhancement of every pathology chapter's discussion of brain circuits, including the addition of many unique, pedagogical drawings that help clarify these circuits and bring them to life.
Expanded coverage of new technologies and their impact on clinical research and treatment throughout the book.
New topic discussions such as the impact of vaping, ketamine-based treatment for depression, and sexual assaults on transgender and non-binary persons
Abnormal Psychology in Science and Clinical Practice 1 Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present 2 Research in Abnormal Psychology 3 Models of Abnormality 4 Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Problems of Anxiety and Mood 5 Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorders 6 Disorders of Trauma and Stress 7 Depressive and Bipolar Disorders and Treatments 8 Suicide
Problems of the Mind and Body 9 Disorders Featuring Somatic Symptoms 10 Eating Disorders 11 Substance Use and Addictive Disorders 12 Sexual Disorders and Gender Variations
Problems of Psychosis and the Cognitive Function 13 Schizophrenia and Related Disorders 14 Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Disorders
Life-Span Problems 15 Personality Disorders 16 Disorders Common Among Children and Adolescents 17 Disorders of Aging and Cognition
Conclusion 18 Law, Society, and the Mental Health Profession
LaunchPad Help students get better results. Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, LaunchPad gives students a complete e-book with all interactive features including, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize content for your syllabus, create presentations and lectures, assign and assess readings and activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.
Featured in LaunchPad Clinical Choices 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.
Ronald Comer has been a professor in Princeton University’s Department of Psychology for the past 46 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 abnormal psychology 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 Eden Autism Services...
Ronald Comer has been a professor in Princeton University’s Department of Psychology for the past 46 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 abnormal psychology 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 Eden Autism Services and to hospitals and family practice residency programs throughout New Jersey.
In addition to writing the textbooks Abnormal Psychology (eleventh edition), Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology (ninth edition), Psychology Around Us (second edition), and Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (second 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 Abnormal Psychology, 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 Boynton Beach, Florida, with his wife, Marlene. From there he keeps a close eye on his nearby grandchildren Delia and Emmett, somehow making the same mistakes with them that he made with their father Jon and uncle Greg a generation ago. Then again, that turned out pretty well.
Jonathan Comer is a professor of psychology at Florida International University, where he also directs the Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program. He is Past President of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of the American Psychological Association) and a leader in the field of clinical child and adolescent psychology. The author of approximately 200 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, childhood anxiety and disruptive behaviors, and the impact of traumatic stress, disasters, and terrorism on children. His current work also focuses on ties between psychopathology, neurocircuitry, and the intergenerational transmission of psychological problems.
In addition to Abnormal Psychology (eleventh edition), Professor Comer has authored Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology (ninth edition) and Childhood Disorders (second edition) and edited The Oxford Handbook of Research Strategies for Clinical Psychology, among other books. He serves as Editor of the journal Behavior Therapy and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Clinical Psychology, the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice. 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 music—both playing and listening—and enjoys keeping an eye on the often-frustrating Philadelphia sports teams that his father taught him to love/hate.
