Focus Boxes
Chapter-Opening Cases
Chapter Summaries
Glossary and Key Terms
DSM-IV Table
References
Focus Boxes
There are many in-depth discussions of selected topics encased in focus
boxes throughout the book. This feature allows us to involve the reader
in a sometimes very specialized topic in a way that does not detract from
the flow of the regular text. Sometimes a focus box expands on a point
in the text; sometimes it deals with an entirely separate but relevant
issue, often a controversial one. Reading these boxes with care will deepen
the readers understanding of the subject matter. For a complete list of
focus boxes, see page xx in your text.
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Chapter-Opening
Cases
The syndrome chapters, 6 through 16, open with extended case illustrations.
These accounts provide a clinical context for the theories and research
that occupy most of our attention in the chapter and help make vivid the
real-life implications of the empirical work of psychopathologists and
clinicians.
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Chapter
Summaries
A summary appears at the end of each chapter, and readers may find it useful
to peruse it before beginning the chapter itself. These summaries give
readers a good sense of what lies ahead. When the summary is reread after
completing the chapter itself it will enhance the student's understanding
and provide an immediate sense of what has been learned in just one reading
of the chapter.
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Glossary
and Key Terms
When an important term is introduced, it is boldfaced and listed after
the chapter summary as a key term. A definition and/or discussion of that
term immediately follows its appearance in the text. Of course, the term
will probably appear again later in the book, in which case it will not
be highlighted in this way. We have provided at the end of the book a glossary
that includes all of these terms.
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DSM-IV Table
On the endpapers of the book is a summary of the current psychiatric nomenclature,
DSM-IV. This provides a handy guide to where particular disorders appear
in the "official" taxonomy, or classification. Readers will notice
that we make considerable use of DSM-IV, yet in selective and sometimes
critical vein. Sometimes we find it better to discuss theory and research
on a particular problem in a way that is different from DSM's conceptualization.
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References
Our commitment to remain current and forward-looking is reflected in the
inclusion of more than 1300 new references, over half of which were published
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