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Differentiating
Normal and Abnormal Personality
by Stephen
Strack (Editor)
2nd Edition
Hardcover (May 30, 2006)
Springer Pub Co; ISBN: 0826132065
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With graduate students and
professionals new to the field in mind, this book provides information
about the central issues that are being addressed by researchers and
clinicians in the realm of normal-abnormal personality today. In addition,
it provides essential terminology, ideas, and methods that are unique to
the field at large as well as basic tools needed to become a participant
in normal-abnormal psychology.
Divided into three parts,
the book presents an overview of major theories, statistical methods, and
measurement instruments, including:
- Seven influential models
of personality and psychopathology
- Four statistical methods
for use in taxonomy, diagnosis, similarities and differences between
normal and abnormal personality, and genetic and environmental
influences
- Problems and pitfalls in
designing empirical studies in the realm of normal-abnormal
personality
- Empirically-based
introductions and reviews of five widely-used instruments for
assessing normal-abnormal personality
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Foreword, Auke Tellegen
Introduction, Stephen Strack
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
- Millon's
Evolutionary Model for Unifying the Study of Normal and Abnormal
Personality, Theodore Millon and Seth D. Grossman
- Psychopathology
from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model, Robert R. McCrae
- Differentiating
Personality Deviance, Normality, and Well-Being by the
Seven-Factor Psychobiological Model, C. Robert Cloninger
- Interpersonal
Theory and the Interpersonal Circumplex: Evolving Perspectives
on Normal and Abnormal Personality, Aaron L. Pincus and Michael
B. Gurtman
- Cognitive Theory
of Personality and Personality Disorders, Marjorie E. Weishaar
and Aaron T. Beck
- Psychobiological
Models and Issues, Gordon Claridge
- Differentiating
Normal and Abnormal Personality from the Perspective of the DSM,
Douglas B. Samuel and Thomas A. Widiger
Part II: Methodology
- Problems and
Pitfalls in Designing Research on Normal-Abnormal Personality,
Stephen Strack
- Principles of
Exploratory Factor Analysis, Lewis R. Goldberg and Wayne F.
Velicer
- Latent Variable
Modeling: Representing the Structural Continuity and
Discontinuity of Normal and Abnormal Personality, Kristian E.
Markon and Robert F. Krueger
- Methods for
Understanding Genetic and Environmental Influences in Normal and
Abnormal Personality, Laura A. Baker
- Taxometrics, Nick
Haslam and Ben Williams
Part III: Measurement and Assessment
- Assessment of
Maladaptive Personality Traits, Thomas A. Widiger, Paul T.
Costa, Jr., and Douglas B. Samuel
- Differentiating
Normal From Abnormal Personality With the MMPI-2, Yossef S. Ben-Porath
- Interpersonal
Circumplex Measures, Kenneth D. Locke
- The Dimensional
Assessment of Personality Pathology (DAPP) Approach to
Personality Disorder, W. John Livesley
- The Schedule for
Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP): A Dimensional
Measure of Traits Relevant to Personality and Personality
Pathology, Leonard J. Simms and Lee Anna Clark
- The Personality
Assessment Inventory and the Measurement of Normal and Abnormal
Personality Constructs, Leslie C. Morey and Christopher J.
Hopwood
- Rorschach
Assessment of Normal and Abnormal Personality, Ronald J.
Ganellen
Author Index
Subject Index
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