Clinical Applications of Learning Theory

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84872-008-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

This book examines a variety of psychological disorders from the perspective of the psychology of learning. Grounded in the study of classical and instrumental conditioning, learning theory provides an explanatory framework for the way in which humans acquire information, and when applied, how abnormalities in learning may give rise to clinical conditions.

This edited volume addresses a wide range of clinically relevant issues in chapters written by international experts in each field. Individual chapters present experimental research into the neuropsychological basis of the acquisition of fears, phobias and clinical aversions, the placebo and nocebo effects, the psychology of drug addiction and relapse following clinical treatment, as well as the role of learning in Tourette’s syndrome, depression and schizophrenia.

This book will be particularly useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of clinical psychology, behavioural neuroscience and those studying the applications of learning theory to clinical or psychiatric research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haselgrove, Mark

Hogarth, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

M. Haselgrove, L. Hogarth, Introduction. P.M. Moran, J. Rouse, Integrative Theories of Schizophrenia and Learning: A Historical Perspective. M. Symonds, G. Hall, Avoidance, Anxiety, and Aversion in the Clinical Setting: The Role of Classical Conditioning. A.P. Field, H.M. Purkis, Associative Learning and Phobias. L. Hogarth, H.W. Chase, Vulnerabilities Underlying Human Drug Dependence: Goal Valuation versus Habit Learning. M.E. Bouton, N.E. Winterbaur, D. Vurbic, Context and Extinction: Mechanisms of Relapse in Drug Self-administration. S. Klosterhalfen, P. Enck, Placebo and Nocebo Responses. A.G. Baker, R.M. Msetfi, N. Hanley, R. Murphy, Depressive Realism? Sadly not Wiser. A.J.D. Nelson, E. Kantini, H.J. Cassaday, An Associative Analysis of Tourette Syndrome.

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Haselgrove& Lee Hogarth are bothlecturers at The University of Nottingham, UK. Their research and teachingfocuseson associative learning, biological psychology and abnormal psychology.