Overview

During the past several decades, the field of mental health care has expanded greatly. This expansion has been based on greater recognition of the prevalence and treatability of mental disorders, as well as the availability of a variety of forms of effective treatment. Indeed, throughout this period, our field has witnessed the introduction and the wide­ spread application of specific pharmacological treatments, as well as the development, refinement, and more broadly based availability of behavioral, psychodynamic, and marital and family interventions. The community mental health center system has come into being, and increasing numbers of mental health practitioners from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, and related professional disciplines have entered clinical practice. In concert with these developments, powerful sociopolitical and socioeconomic forces-including the deinstitutionalization movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the cost-containment responses of the 1980s, necessitated by the spiraling cost of health care-have shaped the greatest area of growth in the direction of outpatient services. This is particularly true of the initial assessment and treatment of nonpsychotic mental disorders, which now can often be managed in ambulatory-care settings. Thus, we decided that a handbook focusing on the outpatient treatment of mental disorders would be both timely and useful. When we first began outlining the contents of this book, the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor­ ders (DSM-III) was in its fourth year of use.

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Author:   Barry A. Edelstein ,  Michel Hersen ,  M.E. Thase
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1990 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 26.00cm
Weight:   3.420kg
ISBN:  

9780306432675

ISBN 10:   0306432676
Pages:   684
Publication Date:   31 January 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. General Issues.- 1. Interviewing and Diagnosis.- 2. Differentiating Physical from Psychiatric Disorders.- 3. Overview of Drug Treatment.- 4. Overview of Psychodynamic Treatment.- 5. Overview of Behavioral Treatment.- II. Specific Disorders.- 6. Mood Disorders.- 7. Chronic Depressive Disorders.- 8. Phobia.- 9. Panic Disorder.- 10. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- 11. Sexual Dysfunction.- 12. Male Sex Offenders.- 13. Somatoform Disorders.- 14. Borderline Disorders.- 15. Antisocial Personality Disorder.- 16. Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias.- 17. Selected Organic Brain Syndromes.- 18. Problem Drinking: Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies for Self-Control.- 19. Eating Disorders.- III. Special Populations.- 20. Marital Dysfunction.- 21. Adolescents and Young Adults.- 22. Geriatric Populations.- 23. The Vietnam Veteran.- 24. Mentally Retarded Adults.- 25. Mentally Ill Substance Abusers.- IV. Special Topics.- 26. Ethical and Legal Issues.- 27. The Suicidal Patient.- 28. Office Practice.- 29. Research in Outpatient Clinical Practice.

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