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What You Need to Know About Personality Disorders
Kimberly S. Duris and Katherine M. Helm
Having a personality disorder is different from simply having personality quirks. Quirks or eccentricities are considered normal; however, when certain dominant personality traits interfere with healthy psychological functioning, a personality disorder might be the cause.
This volume provides readers with all the information they need to know about personality disorders, including how to assess, diagnose, treat, and manage the varying signs and symptoms of the 10 personality disorders currently recognized.
The latest installment in the Inside Diseases and Disorders series, this book offers a complete overview of the history, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders. Using recent scholarship and case studies, it also explores the impact these disorders can have on patients and their families.
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Cognitive Behavioral Model (Chapter from Intervening for Stepfamily Success: One Case, Multiple Perspectives)
Kimberly S. Duris
This book was developed as a clinical primer to provide the reader with concrete examples of how to apply multiple family systems theories and techniques to stepfamily concerns using a single case study approach. Given the ongoing escalation in the numbers of stepfamilies, and the probability that clinicians, regardless of the setting of counseling practice, will experience growing numbers of stepfamily concerns in their clinical caseloads, the availability of multiple approaches to support stepfamily success will be a welcome resource. This is a practitioner book. It assumes the reader has basic knowledge of theory-based treatment planning, systems thinking, and family theory. The chapters build on those foundations by illustrating how clinicians from different modalities might address the issues facing our case study stepfamily.
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Introduction: The Changing Landscape of Couple Therapy Today and Tomorrow (Chapter from The Disordered Couple)
Katherine Helm and Len Sperry
The Disordered Couple, Second Edition, focuses on couples with psychiatric disorders and/or relational disorders that significantly impact their relationship, mental health, and well-being. It is the first and only book to provide mental health professionals and trainees with cutting-edge, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based clinical strategies for working effectively with disordered couples.
While maintaining its focus on disordered couples, this second edition adds several new features and considers key trends that have impacted the structure of couples and families since the original edition appeared, including the influence of social media and technology, legalization of same-sex marriage, increases in the availability of Internet pornography, and changes in societal norms regarding romantic relationships. The disorders covered reflect revisions to the DSM-5 and both psychiatric disorders and relational disorders, and the book highlights clinically relevant and culturally sensitive intervention practices for working with a wide variety of disordered couples. Chapters also include a section on specific multicultural implications for the type of couple discussed.
With proven strategies for effectively assessing, conceptualizing, and implementing treatment with disordered couples, this book is an essential reference for marital, clinical, counseling, and psychiatry professionals, as well as trainees in these areas. The Disordered Couple, Second Edition, will be of great assistance to mental health professionals in providing disordered couples with the most up-to-date, culturally sensitive, and relevant clinical care.
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The Alcohol and Drug Addicted Couple (Chapter from The Disordered Couple)
Michael R. Lloyd and Ellen Thursby
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The Disordered Couple: Past, Present and Future (Chapter from The Disordered Couple)
Len Sperry and Katherine Helm
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Chapter from The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling)
Kimberly S. Duris
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an empirically based form of behavioral and cognitive treatment developed by psychologist Steven C. Hayes. ACT was originally developed to assist with the treatment of anxiety-based disorders but has been applied to numerous behavioral health issues since its conception. ACT is part of what has been called the third wave of behavioral and cognitive therapy, with its focus on mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based living. Since the development of ACT, it has been applied to a wide variety of clinical issues, including couples counseling. This entry provides an overview of the main tenets of this theory, discusses how these tenets are applied in treating couples, and describes the role of an ACT couples counselor.
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