Phillips Human Adaptation and Its Failures

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6349-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Web PDF

Human Adaptation and its Failures focuses on the nature of psychopathology and its relation to normal behavior. The book first offers information on key concepts, including environmental factors in adaptation, nonadaptive behavior patterns, and a critique of approaches to normal and psychiatrically impaired behaviors. The text then surveys the development from biological organism to adult social being; social competence and societal expectations; and measurement of social competence. Topics include early experience and psychological development, social status as a way of life, social, moral, and intellectual development, and sex differences in social competence. The manuscript takes a look at social competence, adaptive potential, and psychological development and adaptive potential and adaptive failure. The publication also examines the definition and measurement of adaptive failure, conceptual issues in adaptive failure, and pathological behavior style and life-style. The text is a dependable reference for readers wanting to study human adaptation and its failures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Leslie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Human Adaptation and its Failures;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;12
5;Dedication;6
6;PREFACE;8
7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;10
8;CHAPTER 1. SOME KEY CONCEPTS;18
8.1;ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN ADAPTATION;24
8.2;NONADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS;25
8.3;A CRITIQUE OF CURRENT APPROACHES TO NORMAL AND PSYCHIATRICALLY IMPAIRED BEHAVIORS;28
8.4;THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK;39
8.5;REFERENCES;41
9;CHAPTER 2. FROM BIOLOGICAL ORGANISM TO ADULT SOCIAL BEING;43
9.1;PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;44
9.2;EARLY EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;54
9.3;SOCIAL STATUS AS A WAY OF LIFE;63
9.4;REFERENCES;65
10;CHAPTER 3. SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS;67
10.1;INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT;68
10.2;SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;70
10.3;MORAL DEVELOPMENT;72
10.4;SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS;75
10.5;REFERENCES;84
11;CHAPTER 4.THE MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE;86
11.1;THE CURRENT SCALE OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE;87
11.2;SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS;94
11.3;EARLIER SCALES OF SOCIAL COMPETENCE;94
11.4;RELIABILITY OF MEASUREMENT;95
11.5;SEX DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL COMPETENCE;98
11.6;OTHER APPROACHES TO COMPETENCE;100
11.7;REFERENCES;103
12;CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL COMPETENCE, ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;105
12.1;COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE UNDER STRESS;106
12.2;COMPETENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;107
12.3;PERFORMANCE UNDER STRESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;112
12.4;REFERENCES;113
13;CHAPTER 6. ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL AND ADAPTIVE FAILURE;115
13.1;PREVALENCE OF DISORDER;115
13.2;SEVERITY OF DISORDER;120
13.3;OUTCOME OF DISORDER;123
13.4;A FINAL COMMENT;131
13.5;REFERENCES;132
14;CHAPTER 7. THE DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF ADAPTIVE FAILURE;135
14.1;MAJOR FORMS OF PATHOLOGY;136
14.2;PROBLEMS IN CLASSIFICATION;140
14.3;PROBLEMS IN RELIABILITY;145
14.4;REFERENCES;147
15;CHAPTER 8. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN ADAPTIVE FAILURE;149
15.1;SYMPTOM PATTERNS AS BEHAVIOR STYLES;149
15.2;BEHAVIOR STYLE AND PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS;151
15.3;ATTITUDINAL SET AND BEHAVIORAL STYLE;156
15.4;REFERENCES;160
16;CHAPTER 9. PATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR STYLE, PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, AND OUTCOME TO PATHOLOGY;162
16.1;PATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR STYLE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;162
16.2;BEHAVIOR STYLE AND OUTCOME IN DISORDER;168
16.3;THE PROCESS-REACTIVE DISTINCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;170
16.4;REFERENCES;174
17;CHAPTER 10. PATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR STYLE AND LIFE-STYLE;177
17.1;SPHERE DOMINANCE AND LIFE-STYLE;179
17.2;SEX IDENTITY AND LIFE-STYLE;182
17.3;SUMMARY;189
17.4;REFERENCES;191
18;CHAPTER 11. CULTURE, LIFE-STYLE, AND PATHOLOGY;193
18.1;PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, BEHAVIOR STYLE, AND CULTURE;194
18.2;CROSSCULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN PATHOLOGY;197
18.3;CULTURE CHANGE AND PATHOLOGY;201
18.4;REFERENCES;207
19;CHAPTER 12. THE SOCIAL BASES OF ADAPTATION AND FAILURE;209
19.1;THE GROUP;211
19.2;PRESSURES FOR CONFORMITY;212
19.3;THE BEHAVIOR DEVIATIONS;214
19.4;RESEARCH ON ISOLATION AND PATHOLOGY;217
19.5;LIMITATIONS OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK;221
19.6;REFERENCES;222
20;CHAPTER 13. THE INTERACTIONIST VIEW ON ADAPTATION AND FAILURE;224
20.1;TYPES OF ENVIRONMENT;230
20.2;IMPLICATI..S FOR CORRECTIVE PROGRAMS;232
20.3;REFERENCES;234
21;APPENDIX;235
22;AUTHOR INDEX;278
23;SUBJECT INDEX;284