Abnormal Psychology Article Reviews Samples For Students

Jones, M., Rona, R. J., Hooper, R., & Wesseley, S. (2006). The burden of psychological symptoms in UK Armed Forces. Occupational Medicine, 56(5), 322-328.
Jones, Margaret, et al. "The burden of psychological symptoms in UK Armed Forces." Occupational Medicine 56.5 (2006): 322-328.
The article compares to that of Foa, E. B., Steketee, G., & Rothbaum, B. O. (1989) whop try to find out the reason we have this issue among war veterans. It contrasts with the artcle by Kang, H. K., Natelson, B. H., Mahan, C. M., Lee, K. Y., & Murphy, F. M. (2003) who analyse a particular ...

Abnormal Psychology

The article reveals about the ethical issues that involved in schizophrenia research. The author notes on the new scientific developments especially those that have developed in the past decade. According to the article abnormal psychology is a subgroup of psychology, which deals with the studies involving abnormal people in a comparison to the rest of the members of an individual society (Wilson & Stanley, 2016). The article reveals that that according to empirical research, 27 percent of people in a population at any one particular time may be suffering from a disorder or depression at any given time (Wilson & Stanley, ...

Introduction

The topic selected from the textbook is in chapter 8 eating disorders in abnormal psychology. Eating disorders are abnormal psychological disorders that are characterized by abnormal food attitudes that make an individual change their diet. Often people who suffer from eating disorders focus on their body shape and weight excessively making them adopt unhealthy food behaviors that pose as a risk to their health. In regards to the above information, the paper analyzes Attia and Walsh article on anorexia nervosa abnormal psychology eating disorder.

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The condition is quite common especially among young women in most industrialized nations where the ...

A study published in Current Psychiatric Reports in 2016 approached the topic of the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after incidences of trauma (Qi, Gevonden and Shalev). The link to the article is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4723637/. PTSD as a result of various types of traumas may result in different levels of disability. As methods of recognition improve, the numbers of diagnosed PTSD sufferers continue to rise. Subsequently, the research exploring causes, prevention, and treatment has become the most widely addressed post-traumatic topic and has evolved into an actual PTSD psychopathology. However, treatment options remain inconsistent for application. The article by ...

According to this article, psychology is the science of human behaviors and the ability to think scientifically. However, it is believed there are three characteristics separates and distinguish psychologists from other health care service providers in the illness in the mind or mental health field. In this case, the scientific technique has been considered the most of psychology’s uniqueness and a great reason for important achievement in academic and applied in the health fields Bray, (2010). In this regard, Psychologists are organized and trained to react and think scientifically, act rationally with the high capacity that is unique in ...

Article Summary

Kuo, J. R., & Linehan, M. M. (2009). Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. Journal of abnormal psychology, 118(3), 531.
Borderline Personality Disorder is defined as “A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.” The essential features of a personality disorder are “impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits” (APA, 2013).
In 1993, Marsha Linehan proposed a theory of Borderline ...

Most psychologists attest to the potential of computers as powerful tools to test methods during psychological assessments. The introduction of computers in the 1950s was found to be very significant in facilitating scores, data management and analysis of results. In this review article, Butcher and colleagues (2004) aim to discuss the history and state of personality and neuropsychological tests that are processed through computers and how such method may be both helpful and problematic in the interpretation of the assessments of psychological data. Further, some issues regarding test interpretations through the computer were also emphasized along with the problems ...

In this paper, the study "A Longitudinal Examination of Stress Generation in Depressive and Anxiety Disorders” published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology will be discussed. First, an overview of the study will be presented. Second, key strengths and weakness of the study’s methods and procedures, as well as its results, will be argued. Third, a recommendation for how the study could be improved will be stated, and finally a conclusion will sum up the results of this review.
The study’s goal is to expand on existing research on stress. The study examines both interpersonal and non interpersonal ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a type of group therapy that has the potential to assist those suffering from the adverse effects of disordered thinking, including eating disorders. This paper discusses a study conducted to examine whether DBT can possibly be used to treat Binge Eating Disorder in women. The study found that by the end of the treatment, 89% of the experimental group were abstinent in binge-eating behavior at the end of the treatment, while 57% were still abstinent at the 6-month follow-up. This indicates that, although the sample size was small, more research should be done on the ...