This text proposes that psychopathology is best understood as the interaction between three key factors - biology/genetics, personality, and stressful events. These, in combination with social and... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Zuckerman's latest work is truly a valuable component to understanding a variety of disorders through a diathesis-stress model. Zuckerman provides the reader with up-to-date prevalence figures and etiological theories for the disorders covered in the book. For those who are interested in biological factors related to dysfunction, Zuckerman devotes a large portion of the text to covering these factors. I read this book last semester as part of a graduate course in Psychopathology and feel that it was an excellent choice on the part of my professor to assign the book as part of the class readings.
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