1. Abnormal Psychology: Overview and Research Approaches
2. Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior
3. Causal Factors and Viewpoints
4. Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
5. Stress and Physical and Mental Health
6. Panic, Anxiety, Obsessions, and Their Disorders
7. Mood Disorders and Suicide
8. Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders
9. Eating Disorders and Obesity
10. Personality Disorders
11. Substance-Related Disorders
12. Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
13. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
14. Neurocognitive Disorders
15. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence (Neurodevelopmental
Disorders)
16. Psychological Treatment
17. Contemporary and Legal Issues in Abnormal Psychology
James N. Butcher was born in West Virginia. He enlisted in the army
when he was 17 years old and served in the airborne infantry for 3
years, including a 1-year tour in Korea during the Korean War.
After military service, he attended Guilford College, graduating in
1960 with a BA in psychology. He received an MA in experimental
psychology in 1962 and a PhD in clinical psychology from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was awarded Doctor
Honoris Causa from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, in
1990 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Florence,
Florence, Italy, in 2005. He is currently professor emeritus in the
Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He was
associate director and director of the clinical psychology program
at the university for 19 years. He was a member of the University
of Minnesota Press’s MMPI Consultative Committee, which undertook
the revision of the MMPI in 1989. He was formerly the editor of
Psychological Assessment, a journal of the American Psychological
Association, and serves as consulting editor or reviewer for
numerous other journals in psychology and psychiatry. Dr. Butcher
was actively involved in developing and organizing disaster
response programs for dealing with human problems following airline
disasters during his career. He organized a model crisis
intervention disaster response for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport
and organized and supervised the psychological services offered
following two major airline disasters: Northwest Flight 255 in
Detroit, Michigan, and Aloha Airlines on Maui. He is a fellow of
the Society for Personality Assessment. He has published 60 books
and more than 250 articles in the fields of abnormal psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, and personality assessment.
Jill M. Hooley is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.
She is also the head of the experimental psychopathology and
clinical psychology program at Harvard. Dr. Hooley was born in
England and received a BSc in psychology from the University of
Liverpool. This was followed by research work at Cambridge
University. She then attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where she
completed her DPhil. After a move to the United States and
additional training in clinical psychology at SUNY Stony Brook, Dr.
Hooley took a position at Harvard, where she has been a faculty
member since 1985.
Dr. Hooley has a long-standing interest in psychosocial predictors
of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe psychopathology such
as schizophrenia and depression. Her research has been supported by
grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and by the
Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation. She uses fMRI
to study emotion regulation in people who are vulnerable to
depression and in people who are suffering from borderline
personality disorder. Another area of research interest is
nonsuicidal self-harming behaviors such as skin cutting or
burning.
In 2000, Dr. Hooley received the Aaron T. Beck Award for Excellence
in Psychopathology Research. She is also a past president of the
Society for Research in Psychopathology. The author of many
scholarly publications, Dr. Hooley was appointed Associate Editor
for Clinical Psychological Science in 2012. She is also an
associate editor for Applied and Preventive Psychology and serves
on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Family
Psychology, Family Process, and Personality Disorders: Theory,
Research and Treatment. In 2015 Dr. Hooley received the Zubin Award
for Lifetime Achievement in Psychopathology Research from the
Society for Research in Psychopathology.
At Harvard, Dr. Hooley has taught graduate and undergraduate
classes in introductory psychology, abnormal psychology,
schizophrenia, mood disorders, clinical psychology, psychiatric
diagnosis, and psychological treatment. Reflecting her commitment
to the scientist-practitioner model, she also does clinical work
specializing in the treatment of people with depression, anxiety
disorders, and personality disorders.
Matthew Nock was born and raised in New Jersey. Matt received his
BA from Boston University (1995), followed by two masters (2000,
2001) and a PhD from Yale University (2003). He also completed a
clinical internship at Bellevue Hospital and the New York
University Child Study Center (2003). Matt joined the faculty of
Harvard University in 2003 and has been there ever since, currently
serving as a Professor in the Department of Psychology. While an
undergraduate, Matt became very interested in the question of why
people do things to intentionally harm themselves and he has been
conducting research aimed at answering this question ever since.
His research is multidisciplinary in nature and uses a range of
methodological approaches (e.g., epidemiologic surveys,
laboratory-based experiments, and clinic-based studies) to better
understand how these behaviors develop, how to predict them, and
how to prevent their occurrence. His work is funded by research
grants from the National Institutes of Health, Department of
Defense, and several private foundations. Matt’s research has been
published in over 100 scientific papers and book chapters and has
been recognized through the receipt of awards from the American
Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and
Cognitive Therapies, and the American Association of Suicidology.
In 2011 he received a MacArthur Fellowship (aka, “Genius Grant”) in
recognition of his research on suicide and self-harm. At Harvard,
Matt teaches courses on various topics including psychopathology,
statistics, research methods, and cultural diversity. He has
received numerous teaching and mentoring awards including the
Roslyn Abramson Teaching Award and the Petra Shattuck Prize.
Susan Mineka, born and raised in Ithaca, New York, received her
undergraduate degree magna cum laude in psychology at Cornell
University. She received a PhD in experimental psychology from the
University of Pennsylvania and later completed a formal clinical
retraining program from 1981 to 1984. She taught at the University
of Wisconsin—Madison and at the University of Texas at Austin
before moving to Northwestern University in 1987. Since 1987 she
has been a professor of psychology at Northwestern, and from 1998
to 2006 she served as director of clinical training there. She has
taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses,
including introductory psychology, learning, motivation, abnormal
psychology, and cognitive-behavior therapy. Her current research
interests include cognitive and behavioral approaches to
understanding the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety
and mood disorders. She is currently a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and
the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She has served as editor of the J
ournal of Abnormal Psychology (1990—1994). She also served as
associate editor for Emotion from 2002 to 2006 and is on the
editorial boards of several of the leading journals in the field.
She was also president of the Society for the Science of Clinical
Psychology (1994—1995) and was president of the Midwestern
Psychological Association (1997). She also served on the American
Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs (1992—1994,
chair 1994), on the Executive Board of the Society for Research in
Psychopathology (1992—1994, 2000—2003), and on the Board of
Directors of the American Psychological Society (2001—2004). During
1997 and 1998 she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
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