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Models for the Description of Abnormal Behavior

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Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology

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Human beings are irrepressible builders of models. As children, we spend countless hours constructing toy models, airplanes, or houses. Within the domain of science, models are indispensable for representing complex phenomena in a form that facilitates communication, prediction, and explanation. Perhaps the most dramatic example in our century is the double-helix model proposed by Crick and Watson as a solution to the structure of DNA. This model of the fundamental genetic material has stimulated explosive advances in research on biochemistry and genetics.

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  1. Addiction Research Foundation, and Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S2S1

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    Patricia B. Sutker Ph.D.

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Skinner, H.A. (1984). Models for the Description of Abnormal Behavior. In: Adams, H.E., Sutker, P.B. (eds) Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6681-6_6

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