Graham Davey, Suzanne Dash, Frances Meeten

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With its accessible style and comprehensive coverage of OCD, this is the perfect aid for A-level and undergraduate students, and for anyone interested in understanding mental health

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Insights in Psychology
• Verlag: Macmillan Education
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781137308689
• ISBN-10: 1137308680
• Artikelnr.: 40697641

Autorenporträt

Graham Davey, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Sussex, UK; where his research interests are anxiety, worry, phobias, and the role of the disgust emotion in psychopathology. He has written a range of teaching and research books, most recently on clinical psychology and psychopathology. He is also past president of the British Psychological Society, and a founding editor in chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. He lives in Brighton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: WHAT IS OCD?.- 1. OCD: Symptoms and Diagnosis.- 2. OCD: Prevalence and Epidemiology.- 3. OCD Related Mental Health Problems SECTION.- II: WHAT CAUSES OCD?.- 4. Cognitive Factors.- 5. Behavioural, Psychodynamic and Social Factors.- 6. Biological Models of OCDSECTION.- III: HOW DO WE TREAT OCD?.- 7. Psychological Treatments.- 8. Biological and Pharmacological Treatments.