Handbook of Depression
Contributors: Ian H. Gotlib (Editor); Constance L. Hammen (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press; Guilford Press
Published: May 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781572307254
Subjects: Abnormal psychology; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Depression, Mental; Psychology; Psychopathology - General; Depression; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Pathological Psychology; Psychology : Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Self-Help : Depression; Clinical Psychology; Handbooks, manuals, etc
First sentence: The first modern North American general population epidemiological surveys that included information about depression were carried out in the late 1950s in the Midtown Manhattan Study (Srole, Langner, Michael, Opler, &amp; Rennie, 1962) and the Stirling County Study (Leighton, Harding &amp; Macklim, 1963).
Description: This comprehensive, state-of-the-art handbook synthesizes the full breadth of contemporary knowledge about depression. Bringing together leading depression researchers and clinical practitioners, the volume offers in-depth coverage of the epidemiology, course, and outcome of depressive disorders current issues in classification, assessment, and diagnosis vulnerability and risk factors models of depression, including psychological and biological perspectives and effective approaches to prevention and treatment. Described are current approaches to pharmacotherapy advances in cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, couple, and family treatments and innovations in understanding and treating child and adolescent depression. Also addressed are culture and gender differences depression in later life and assessment and management of suicidality. --Publisher.