Handbook of diagnosis and treatment of the DSM-IV personality disorders
By: Len Sperry.
Publisher: Brunner/Mazel
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Personality disorders.; Personality Disorders -- diagnosis -- handbooks.; Personality Disorders -- therapy -- handbooks.; Personality Disorders -- classification -- handbooks.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and indexes.