Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of the DSM-IV Personality Disorders
This volume summarizes the treatment modalities and approaches that have proven effective for personality disorders, emphasizing that a combination of formats is the preferred treatment for most patients, and focusing on integrating individual, group, and family modalities and behavioral, cognitive, psychodynamic, and medication approaches. It examines eleven types of personality disorders as designated by DSM-IV, with an overview, description, clinical formulations, and information on assessment and treatment for each. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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In recent years, the prognosis for clients with personality disorders has improved dramatically thanks to a tremendous increase in the development of specific skills for assessment and treatment. This is the only volume to offer a vast compendium of treatment modalities and approaches that have proven effective for the full range of personality disorders.Current research indicates that a combination of formats is the preferred treatment for most individuals with personality disorders. Appropriately, the volume focuses on ways of combining and integrating treatment modalities and approaches: individual, group, marital and family modalities; and behavioral, cognitive, interpersonal, psychodynamic, and medication approaches.The Handbook begins by addressing how and why personality disorders - once considered difficult if not impossible to treat - have been reconceptualized in a much broader fashion. This new paradigm shift reflects breakthroughs in assessment and combined treatment strategies of personality disorders, which coincide with the increasingly differentiated criteria of DSM-III, DSM-III-R, and now, DSM-IV. The volume goes on to examine eleven distinct types of personality disorders as designated by DSM-IV. Each of these chapters is divided into five major sections: overview, description, clinical formulations, assessment, and treatment, with a major emphasis on the two latter categories.
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