Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology.
Title:
Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology.
Author:
Dohrenwend, Bruce P.
ISBN:
9780198028444
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (584 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Extreme Situations -- 1. Individuals Under Conditions of Maximum Adversity: The Holocaust -- 2. Symptoms, Functioning, and Health Problems in a Massively Traumatized Population: The Legacy of the Cambodian Tragedy -- 3. Psychological Effects of Military Combat -- 4. Natural and Human-Made Disasters -- Part II: Individual Events -- 5. Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity and Subsequent Psychopathology -- 6. The Model of Stress: The Bereavement Reaction -- 7. The Impact of Unemployment on Health and Well-Being -- 8. Homelessness, Stress, and Psychopathology -- 9. The Value and Limitations of Stress Models in HIV/AIDS -- 10. Rape, Other Violence Against Women, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 11. Psychiatric Disorder in the Context of Physical Illness -- 12. Divorce and Psychopathology -- Part III: Epidemiological and Case-Control Studies -- 13. Epidemiological Findings on Selected Psychiatric Disorders in the General Population -- 14. Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychiatric Disorders: A Test of the Social Causation-Social Selection Issue -- 15. Epidemiological Findings on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Co-morbid Disorders in the General Population -- 16. Exposure to "Fateful" Events: A Confounder in Assigning Causal Roles to Life Events -- 17. Relationships between Stressful Life Events and Episodes of Major Depression and Nonaffective Psychotic Disorders: Selected Results from a New York Risk Factor Study -- 18. Loss and Depressive Disorders -- Part IV: Stress-Moderating and -Amplifying Factors -- 19. Personality and Coping as Stress-Attenuating or -Amplifying Factors -- 20. Social Support: Its Present Significance for Psychiatric Epidemiology -- 21. Some Characteristics of Occupations as Risk or Protective Factors for Episodes of Major Depression and Nonaffective Psychotic Disorder.
22. Domestic Arrangements and Depressive Symptoms: An Examination of Housework Conditions -- Part V: Complementary Approaches -- 23. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Studies of Stress and Adversity -- 24. Cognitive Changes Associated with Persisting Behavioral Effects of Early Psychosocial Stress in Rhesus Monkeys: A View from Psychobiology -- 25. Physiological Correlates of Stress, Adversity, and Psychopathology -- 26. Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology: A Psychiatric Genetic Perspective -- 27. Effects of Improving Achievement on Aggressive Behavior and of Improving Aggressive Behavior on Achievement Through Two Preventive Interventions: An Investigation of Causal Paths -- 28. A Perspective on Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology -- Part VI: Overview and Integration -- 29. Overview of Evidence for the Importance of Adverse Environmental Conditions in Causing Psychiatric Disorders -- 30. Theoretical Integration -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
"Adversity" involves exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances. It occurs in extreme situations such as prolonged combat or natural disasters, both of which affect whole groups or communities of people simultaneously. It is found as well in more individually targeted events such as child abuse, bereavement, rape, physical illness, marital separation or divorce, unemployment, and homelessness. Exposure to adversity is not randomly distributed in society. It varies, for example, with gender, ethnic or racial background, and socioeconomic status. And some types of adversity can be precipitated by an individual's own actions. In this volume, the leading investigators review research on the nature of adversity and its relationship to major types of psychopathology including schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism and other substance-use disorders, antisocial personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and nonspecific distress. These relationships are examined in terms of theoretical concepts of life stress that describe the characteristics of the ongoing situation in which adverse events occur and the factors of personality and coping ability that also affect psychiatric outcomes. The authors sift through firm and infirm findings and critically evaluate existing theory and research strategies and provide and integrative theoretical framework. No other book offers as comprehensive and authoritative a discussion of the role of psychosocial stress in causing mental disorders.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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