Dohrenwend

Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology

Herausgeber: Dohrenwend, Bruce P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 184mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1204g
• ISBN-13: 9780195121926
• ISBN-10: 0195121929
• Artikelnr.: 21263269

Autorenporträt

Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Extreme Situations
* Introduction
* 1: Itzhak Levav: Individuals Under Conditions of Maximum Adversity:
The Holocaust
* 2: Richard F. Mollica, Charles Poole, Svang Tor: Symptoms,
Functioning and Health Problems in a Massively Traumatized
Population: The Legacy of the Cambodian Tragedy
* 3: Terence M. Keane: Psychological Effects of Military Combat
* 4: Robert Giel: Natural and Human-made Disasters
* Part II: Individual Events
* Introduction
* 5: Cathy Spatz Widon: Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity and
Subsequent Psychopathology
* 6: Paul J. Clayton: Model of Stress: The Bereavement Reaction
* 7: Stanislav B. Kasl, Eunice Rodriguez, Kathryn E. Lasch: The Impact
of Unemployment on Health and Well-being
* 8: Daniel B. Herman, Ezra S. Susser, Elmer L. Struening:
Homelessness, Stress and Psychopathology
* 9: Suzanne C. Ouellette: The Value and Limitations of Stress Models
in HIV/AIDS
* 10: Dean G. Kilpatrick, Heidi S. Resnick, Benjamin E. Saunders,
Connie L. Best: Rape, Other Violence Against Women, and
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
* 11: Mary Amanda Dew: Psychiatric Disorder in the Context of Physical
Illness
* 12: Martha L. Bruce: Divorce and Psychopathology
* Part III: Epidemiologic Studies
* Introduction
* 13: Robert Kohn, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Jerrold Mirotznik: Psychiatric
Disorders in the General Population
* 14: Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Itzhak Levav, Patrick E. Shrout, Sharon
Schwartz, Guedalia Naveh, Bruce G. Link, Andrew E. Skodol, and Anne
Stuece: Ethnic Status, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychiatric
Disorders: the Social Causation-Social Selection Issue
* 15: Naomi Breslau, Glenn Davis, Patricia Andreski, Belle Federman,
James C. Anthony: PTSD and Comorbid Disorders in the General
Population
* 16: Lee M. Robins: Exposure to "Fateful" Events: A Confounder in
Assigning Causal Roles to Life Events
* 17: Ann Stueve, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Andrew E. Skodol: Stressful Life
Events and Episodes of Major Depression and Non-Affective Psychotic
Disorders
* 18: George W. Brown: Loss and Depressive Disorders
* Part IV: Stress Moderating and Amplifying Factors
* Introduction
* 19: Andrew E. Skodol: Personality and Coping As Stress Attentuating
or Amplifying Factorss
* 20: A.S. Henderson: Social Support: Its Prsent Significance for
Psychiatric Epidemiology
* 21: Bruce G. Link, Mary Clare Lennon, Bruce P. Dohrenwend: Some
Characteristics of Occupations as Risk or Productive Factors
* 22: Mary Clare Lennon: Domestic Arrangements and Depressive Symptoms:
An Examination of Housework Conditions
* Part V: Complementary Approaches
* Introduction
* 23: Patrick E. Shrout, Bruce G. Link: Mathematical Modeling and
Simulation of Stress and Adversity
* 24: Gary W. Kraemer, Jocelyne Bachevalier: Cognitive Changes
Associated with Persisting Behavioral Effects of Early Psychosocial
Stress in Rhesus Monkeys: The View From Psychobiology
* 25: EWllen Frank, Jordan Karp: Physiological Correlates of Stress,
Adversity, and Psychopathology
* 26: Kenneth S. Kendler: Adversity, Stress and Psychopathology: A
Psychiatric Genetic Perspective
* 27: Sheppard G. Kellam, Lawrence S. Mayer, George W. Rebok, Wesley E.
Hawkins: Effects of Improving Achievement on Aggressive Behavior and
of Improving Aggressive Behavior on Achievement Through Two
Preventive Interventions: An Investigation of Causal Paths
* 28: Bruce P. Dohrenwend: A Perspective on Adversity, Stress and
Psychopathology
* Part VI: Overview and Integration
* Introduction
* 29: Bruce P. Dohrenwend: Overview of Evidence for the Importance of
Adverse Environmental Conditions
* 30: Bruce P. Dohrenwend: Theoretical Integration