[...]... presentation of behavior therapy Useful as a reference text for specific behavior therapies Plaud, Joseph J., and Georg H Eifert, eds From Behavior Theory to Behavior 12 Psychology and Mental Health Abnormality: Behavioral Models Therapy Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1998 A discussion of behavioral theories and therapies Includes bibliographical references and an index Rosenhan, David L., and Martin E P Seligman... study: Behavioral and cognitive models; models of abnormality Behavioral models of abnormal behavior use principles of learning to explain how maladaptive behaviors develop Learning-based explanations have proved useful for both conceptualizing the development of abnormality and developing effective treatments for abnormal behaviors Principal terms abnormality: a pattern of behavior that is maladaptive... Personality and Psychotherapy: An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking, and Culture (1950), which used principles of conditioning to explain how abnormal behavior develops and how it can be changed This book was important in expanding the behavioral influence outside academic circles and into the applied areas of case conceptualization and treatment At the same time that behaviorism was becoming a powerful... diagnostic manual Shows that psychiatrists take 6 Psychology and Mental Health Abnormality the definitional issue seriously Wilson, G Terence, et al Abnormal Psychology: Integrating Perspectives Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996 A comprehensive look at the nature and treatment of psychopathologies Accompanied by case histories, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV tables, and critical thinking... arranged in such a way that the book can be used as a reference for varying principles in the behavioral model Mark A Williams See also: Abnormality; Agoraphobia and Panic Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Aversion, Implosion, and Systematic Desensitization Therapies; Behavioral Assessment and Personality Rating Scales; Behavioral Family Therapy; Operant Conditioning Therapies; Phobias 13 ... Freud, had faith in insight into oneself and the world “as it really is” as the key to normality About the same time in mid-century, the behavioral psychology of B F Skinner developed in the animal laboratory, and was applied to the treatment of humans To Skinner, abnormality consisted of adjustive behavior that had not been learned (impairment) and maladjustive behavior that had been learned (deviance).. .Psychology and Mental Health Joseph C LaVoie University of Nebraska at Omaha R Christopher Qualls Emory and Henry College Scott O Lilienfeld State University of New York at Albany Paul August Rentz South Dakota State University Ronald G Ribble University of Texas at San Antonio Deborah R McDonald New Mexico State University Cheryl A Rickabaugh University of Redlands Linda E Meashey Pennsylvania State... accompanied by personal distress are examples of the former A final issue pertains to the value placed on the defining process itself According to the medical model, the definition of abnormality is all-important, central to understanding the cause of the disease and to planning treatment Any disease 2 Psychology and Mental Health Abnormality should be diagnosed as soon as possible A sharply contrasting... physical responses not caused by physical pathology), paraphilias (abnormal sexual arousal toward nonhuman objects), and conduct disturbances (such as oppositional or delinquent behaviors) Empirical evidence exists that demonstrates the process of learning and unlearning these abnormal responses Abnormal behaviors that are characterized by abnormal covert processes, such as disturbances in attention, perception,... effective treatments for autism have been based upon principles of classical and operant conditioning For example, language skills and appropriate social behaviors have been effectively taught by systematically using such operant-conditioning principles as positive and negative reinforcement Perspective and Prospects Behavioral models of abnormality began to gain a following in the academic arena in the . entries were taken from National Mental Health Association factsheet from 1996 and 1997. Psychology and Mental Health viii Contributor List Norman Abeles Michigan State University Steven C. Abell Loyola. psychological trauma on mental health has been identified. Psychology and Mental Health examines this field as it continues to unravel the origins of mental illness and psychological disorders and the means.