Abnormal Psychology: Understanding the Complexities of Psychological Suffering
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Copyright: 2020
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Abnormal Psychology is a turn-key online course package that takes students on a journey that looks at severe psychological suffering, or abnormal psychology, from a new perspective. It offers an integrative psychology for the 21st century that looks cross-culturally and explores different models of understanding the complexities of psychological suffering.
The content explores the psychological diversity of humans (different cultures understand and treat mental illness differently) and the diversity and different approaches within the field of psychology and psychiatry. It presents an integrative model that takes the weave of psyche, body, and our cultural and ecological worlds into account. It is an invitation to enlarge and change your lens on the psychological suffering that is part of our world. The journey is designed not just to be informative, but also transformative.
To make the transition virtually seamless for adopting instructors, the course package includes chapter overviews, videos, summaries, and automatically graded quizzes and gradebooks that can be connected with most course management systems.
Chapter 1: Self, Culture, & Psychological Health
Chapter 2: Psychological Suffering & Psychological Well-Being
Chapter 3: Biopsychology
Chapter 4: Understanding Psychological Suffering & the Rise of Pharmacological Treatments
Chapter 5: Diagnosis – Describing Psychological Suffering
Chapter 6: Treatment – Relieving Psychological Suffering
Chapter 7: Stress, Trauma & Shame
Chapter 8: Neurocognitive Challenges & Neurodiversity
Chapter 9: The Pivot of the Adolescent Brainstorm
Chapter 10: Rethinking Madness: Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Experiences
Chapter 11: Feeling (Very) Up & Feeling (Very) Down
Chapter 12: Fears & Anxieties: Irrational & Not So Irrational
Chapter 13: Splitting From Ourselves & Taking Psychological Suffering Into Our Bodies
Chapter 14: Identity as Cause of Suffering (including Sexuality & Gender)
Chapter 15: Eating & Sleeping – In Control & Out of Control
Chapter 16: The Future of Psychological Suffering
Chapter 17: The Future of Psychological Suffering
Jürgen W. Kremer received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. In 1982 Jurgen settled in the San Francisco Bay Area to teach full time and served as dean at Saybrook University and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His teaching and research interests range from general psychology, clinical psychology and research methods to the relevance of indigenous knowledge for today as well as ethno-autobiography. For four years he co-directed a program for Native American students and others concerned with indigenous roots and origins. Today Jürgen is a tenured faculty member at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
Jürgen has published regularly since 1976, with 150 plus publications to his credit (journal articles, book chapters, books). Most recently he co-edited three volumes on culture, consciousness, and therapy. He published the textbook Psychology in Diversity, Diversity in Psychology – An Integrative Psychology for the 21st Century with Kendall-Hunt. His Ethnoautobiography (with R. Jackson-Paton) is in its second edition with the same publisher. Jürgen has served on several editorial boards and has been an executive editor for ReVision (a journal of consciousness and transformation) since 1994.
Student Reviews:
I enjoyed the way it was set up and written. It was much easier to read compared to a regular textbook and much more enjoyable as well.
I like how there are definitions and information of terms at the beginning of chapters. This makes it easier for me to understand concepts and general information of the terms and concepts.
I like how on the terms list; I can click on them, and it will direct me to the location where the term is discussed. I also liked the ability to use flashcards if a person wants to review for a test or answer questions in a discussion post.
I think the order of the chapters was excellent. Beginning with background information and then going into how our own experiences form lenses that create our reality in the beginning gave me the awareness to approach the rest of the book in a more productive way.
I appreciated the way each chapter was divided very simply into categories with headings. The way each section had a couple paragraphs under each heading made it easy for me to understand the material and maintain focus.
I appreciated how the author would reference different parts of the textbook when revisiting a subject. It allowed me to reference things that may have happened earlier on in the textbook that weren’t as fresh.
One thing I specifically liked about this textbook was the terminology. This was by far one of the easiest textbooks to understand in terms of wording. I could understand what was being discussed and absorb the main concepts of each chapter. It was presented in a way that sounded like someone was talking rather than someone throwing out terms from a technical dictionary.
I liked the style of writing, I felt it was written in a way to educate me versus other textbooks where the tone feels more arbitrary and distant.
I liked not just the separation of chapters/sections, but also how each subtopic or definition was clearly bolded and separated into its own paragraph.
I really liked that the text was available online. This made reading the material easier for me, as I was able to access it from virtually anywhere and I did not have to carry around a heavy textbook.
The stories that were presented in the beginning of many of the chapters helped tremendously to link concepts together. It made retaining information I learned throughout the chapters easier.
Abnormal Psychology is a turn-key online course package that takes students on a journey that looks at severe psychological suffering, or abnormal psychology, from a new perspective. It offers an integrative psychology for the 21st century that looks cross-culturally and explores different models of understanding the complexities of psychological suffering.
The content explores the psychological diversity of humans (different cultures understand and treat mental illness differently) and the diversity and different approaches within the field of psychology and psychiatry. It presents an integrative model that takes the weave of psyche, body, and our cultural and ecological worlds into account. It is an invitation to enlarge and change your lens on the psychological suffering that is part of our world. The journey is designed not just to be informative, but also transformative.
To make the transition virtually seamless for adopting instructors, the course package includes chapter overviews, videos, summaries, and automatically graded quizzes and gradebooks that can be connected with most course management systems.
Chapter 1: Self, Culture, & Psychological Health
Chapter 2: Psychological Suffering & Psychological Well-Being
Chapter 3: Biopsychology
Chapter 4: Understanding Psychological Suffering & the Rise of Pharmacological Treatments
Chapter 5: Diagnosis – Describing Psychological Suffering
Chapter 6: Treatment – Relieving Psychological Suffering
Chapter 7: Stress, Trauma & Shame
Chapter 8: Neurocognitive Challenges & Neurodiversity
Chapter 9: The Pivot of the Adolescent Brainstorm
Chapter 10: Rethinking Madness: Schizophrenia Spectrum & Other Psychotic Experiences
Chapter 11: Feeling (Very) Up & Feeling (Very) Down
Chapter 12: Fears & Anxieties: Irrational & Not So Irrational
Chapter 13: Splitting From Ourselves & Taking Psychological Suffering Into Our Bodies
Chapter 14: Identity as Cause of Suffering (including Sexuality & Gender)
Chapter 15: Eating & Sleeping – In Control & Out of Control
Chapter 16: The Future of Psychological Suffering
Chapter 17: The Future of Psychological Suffering
Jürgen W. Kremer received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. In 1982 Jurgen settled in the San Francisco Bay Area to teach full time and served as dean at Saybrook University and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His teaching and research interests range from general psychology, clinical psychology and research methods to the relevance of indigenous knowledge for today as well as ethno-autobiography. For four years he co-directed a program for Native American students and others concerned with indigenous roots and origins. Today Jürgen is a tenured faculty member at the Santa Rosa Junior College.
Jürgen has published regularly since 1976, with 150 plus publications to his credit (journal articles, book chapters, books). Most recently he co-edited three volumes on culture, consciousness, and therapy. He published the textbook Psychology in Diversity, Diversity in Psychology – An Integrative Psychology for the 21st Century with Kendall-Hunt. His Ethnoautobiography (with R. Jackson-Paton) is in its second edition with the same publisher. Jürgen has served on several editorial boards and has been an executive editor for ReVision (a journal of consciousness and transformation) since 1994.
Student Reviews:
I enjoyed the way it was set up and written. It was much easier to read compared to a regular textbook and much more enjoyable as well.
I like how there are definitions and information of terms at the beginning of chapters. This makes it easier for me to understand concepts and general information of the terms and concepts.
I like how on the terms list; I can click on them, and it will direct me to the location where the term is discussed. I also liked the ability to use flashcards if a person wants to review for a test or answer questions in a discussion post.
I think the order of the chapters was excellent. Beginning with background information and then going into how our own experiences form lenses that create our reality in the beginning gave me the awareness to approach the rest of the book in a more productive way.
I appreciated the way each chapter was divided very simply into categories with headings. The way each section had a couple paragraphs under each heading made it easy for me to understand the material and maintain focus.
I appreciated how the author would reference different parts of the textbook when revisiting a subject. It allowed me to reference things that may have happened earlier on in the textbook that weren’t as fresh.
One thing I specifically liked about this textbook was the terminology. This was by far one of the easiest textbooks to understand in terms of wording. I could understand what was being discussed and absorb the main concepts of each chapter. It was presented in a way that sounded like someone was talking rather than someone throwing out terms from a technical dictionary.
I liked the style of writing, I felt it was written in a way to educate me versus other textbooks where the tone feels more arbitrary and distant.
I liked not just the separation of chapters/sections, but also how each subtopic or definition was clearly bolded and separated into its own paragraph.
I really liked that the text was available online. This made reading the material easier for me, as I was able to access it from virtually anywhere and I did not have to carry around a heavy textbook.
The stories that were presented in the beginning of many of the chapters helped tremendously to link concepts together. It made retaining information I learned throughout the chapters easier.