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This guide is both compatible with the DSM-5 Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and elaborates on it, offering clinicians at all levels of experience an accessible framework to guide evaluation and treatment of personality disorders.
Written for students at every level of training, including psychiatry residents, psychology graduate students, social work students, and medical students, The Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind explains how the psychoanalytic model works and how it contributes to the care of people with mental illness.
The book is a treatment manual designed for mental health professionals who work with individuals presenting with moderate to severe forms of personality disorder. The book focuses on the broader group of patients with borderline personality organization, expanding the reach and utility of this volume.
Challenging the underlying assumption that suicidal behavior can be predicted and controlled, the authors conceptualize suicidality as problem-solving behavior to which an individual resorts when other options seem to have failed.
Module II focuses on the dimensional assessment of the five pathological personality trait domains in the Alternative Model and their corresponding 25 trait facets.
Since the first transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2008 to treat major depressive disorder in adult patients, the field of TMS has experienced tremendous growth. Despite the growing availability of this option-and expanding insurance coverage-many practitioners remain unsure about ......
In this thoroughly revised and restructured sixth edition, the editors offer a modern reconsideration of the core concepts, conditions, and approaches in neuropsychiatry, providing clinicians with the knowledge and tools they need to practice in this demanding field.
With Glossary and Diagnostic Criteria for Research
This pocket-book version of Chapter V of the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) will facilitate both practice and research. It provides a quickly accessible and easy-to-use source of information about the new classification.
Bridges the gaps between existing trauma manuals and textbooks by giving readers a more complete understanding of the teen's perspective. The book provides concrete strategies for talking to and engaging teens, as well as for finding the most appropriate evidence-based treatment for them.
