Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Disordered and Deviant Behavior: Learning Gone Awry
By (Author) Alfred B. Heilbrun
University Press of America
University Press of America
17th January 2005
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
302.542
Physical Properties
Paperback
478
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 35mm
699g
Description
This book describes several programs of research into psychological disorder and deviance conducted by author Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. during his distinguished career as a university professor.
Reviews
The author's skill in demonstrating how one research study builds on another is particularly evident in the section dealing with criminal dangerousness and violence, where he offers some especially good insights. Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- W. P. Anderson, emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia * Choice Reviews *
The systematic studies in each program provide many new empirically based perspectives on disorder. * Family Therapy *
Author Bio
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Distinguished Emeritus Fellow at Emory University. Professor Heilbrun holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of Iowa. He is also author of Criminal Dangerousness and the Risk of Violence (University Press of America, 1996) and Stress and the Risk of Psychological Disorder in College Women (University Press of America, 1997).
