| Description |
xv, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Bruce P. Dohrenwend -- pt. I. Extreme Situations / Morton Beiser. 1. Individuals Under Conditions of Maximum Adversity: The Holocaust / Itzhak Levav. 2. Symptoms, Functioning, and Health Problems in a Massively Traumatized Population: The Legacy of the Cambodian Tragedy / Richard F. Mollica, Charles Poole and Svang Tor. 3. Psychological Effects of Military Combat / Terence M. Keane. 4. Natural and Human-Made Disasters / Robert Giel -- pt. II. Individual Events / William W. Eaton and Bruce P. Dohrenwend. 5. Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity and Subsequent Psychopathology / Cathy Spatz Widom. 6. The Model of Stress: The Bereavement Reaction / Paula J. Clayton. 7. The Impact of Unemployment on Health and Well-Being / Stanislav V. Kasl, Eunice Rodriguez and Kathryn E. Lasch. 8. Homelessness, Stress, and Psychopathology / Daniel B. Herman, Ezra S. Susser and Elmer L. Struening. 9. The Value and Limitations of Stress Models in HIV/AIDS / Suzanne C. Ouellette. 10. Rape, Other Violence Against Women, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder / Dean G. Kilpatrick, Heidi S. Resnick and Benjamin E. Saunders [and others]. 11. Psychiatric Disorder in the Context of Physical Illness / Mary Amanda Dew. 12. Divorce and Psychopathology / Martha L. Bruce -- pt. III. Epidemiological and Case-Control Studies / Evelyn J. Bromet and Bruce P. Dohrenwend. 13. Epidemiological Findings on Selected Psychiatric Disorders in the General Population / Robert Kohn, Bruce P. Dohrenwend and Jerrold Mirotznik. 14. Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychiatric Disorders: A Test of the Social Causation-Social Selection Issue / Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Itzhak Levav and Patrick E. Shrout [and others]. 15. Epidemiological Findings on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Co-morbid Disorders in the General Population / Naomi Breslau, Glenn Davis and Patricia Andreski [and others]. 16. Exposure to "Fateful" Events: A Confounder in Assigning Causal Roles to Life Events / Lee N. Robins and Judith Robertson. 17. Relationships between Stressful Life Events and Episodes of Major Depression and Nonaffective Psychotic Disorders: Selected Results from a New York Risk Factor Study / Ann Stueve, Bruce P. Dohrenwend and Andrew E. Skodol. 18. Loss and Depressive Disorders / George W. Brown -- pt. IV. Stress-Moderating and -Amplifying Factors / David Mechanic. 19. Personality and Coping as Stress-Attenuating or -Amplifying Factors / Andrew E. Skodol. 20. Social Support: Its Present Significance for Psychiatric Epidemiology / A. Scott Henderson. 21. Some Characteristics of Occupations as Risk or Protective Factors for Episodes of Major Depression and Nonaffective Psychotic Disorder / Bruce G. Link, Mary Clare Lennon and Bruce P. Dohrenwend. 22. Domestic Arrangements and Depressive Symptoms: An Examination of Housework Conditions / Mary Clare Lennon -- pt. V. Complementary Approaches / Robert M. Rose. 23. Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Studies of Stress and Adversity / Patrick E. Shrout and Bruce G. Link. 24. Cognitive Changes Associated with Persisting Behavioral Effects of Early Psychosocial Stress in Rhesus Monkeys: A View from Psychobiology / Gary W. Kraemer and Jocelyne Bachevalier. 25. Physiological Correlates of Stress, Adversity, and Psychopathology / Ellen Frank and Jordan Karp. 26. Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology: A Psychiatric Genetic Perspective / Kenneth S. Kendler. 27. Effects of Improving Achievement on Aggressive Behavior and of Improving Aggressive Behavior on Achievement Through Two Preventive Interventions: An Investigation of Causal Paths / Sheppard G. Kellam, Lawrence S. Mayer and George W. Rebok [and others]. 28. A Perspective on Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology / Alexander H. Leighton -- pt. VI. Overview and Integration / Bruce P. Dohrenwend. 29. Overview of Evidence for the Importance of Adverse Environmental Conditions in Causing Psychiatric Disorders / Bruce P. Dohrenwend. 30. Theoretical Integration / Bruce P. Dohrenwend. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Etiology.
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Suffering.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Stress (Physiology)
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Psychology, Pathological -- Etiology.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Life Change Events.
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Stress, Psychological.
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Suffering -- Psychological aspects.
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| Added Author |
Dohrenwend, Bruce P. (Bruce Philip), 1927-
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| ISBN |
0195121929 (acid-free paper) |
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