Personality disorders and older adults
Subtitle: diagnosis, assessment, and treatment
By: by Daniel L. Segal, Frederick L. Coolidge, Erlene Rosowsky.
Contributors: Coolidge, Frederick L. 1948-; Rosowsky, Erlene.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780471649830
Subjects: Personality disorders in old age
Description: Designed to provide scholarly and scientifically-based guidance about the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders to health professionals, mental health professionals, and senior service professionals who encounter personality-disordered or "difficult" older adults.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to personality disorders and aging; title: The odd and eccentric (Cluster A) personality disorders and aging; title: The dramatic, emotional, and erratic (Cluster B) personality disorders and aging; title: The fearful or anxious (Cluster C) personality disorders and aging; title: Other personality disorders and aging; title: Epidemiology and comorbidity; title: Theories of personality disorders: cognitive, psychoanalytic, and interpersonal; title: Theories of personality disorders: evolutionary and neurobiological; title: Assessment; title: Treatment.