Introduction and research methods in abnormal psychology

They include anxiety, mood disorders, dissociative and somatoform disorders. Family studies have shown that families the relatives of individuals who are usually depressed are more likely to suffer from depression disorders (Hansell & Damour, 181). Biological. Cognitive and psychological perspectives have means that can be used to treat mental disorders. Research in psychology is done according to the standards as outlined in the scientific methods. Clinical psychology is one of the many branches of psychology aims at developing knowledge which they will use on their patients. Approaches used in psychology search include nomothetic and idiographic approaches (Beltz, Adriene M. , et al. Nomothetic is a quantitative method and used in descriptive statistics in analyzing, presenting and interpreting the data — psychologists who use this method aim at studying what is shared with other practitioners to create generalization.