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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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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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The Disordered Couple
Kimberly S. Duris and Katherine Helm
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 SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling
Kimberly S. Duris
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field.
Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples and related interpersonal relationships.
Key topics include:
- Adolescence
- Adoption
- Assessment
- Communication
- Coping
- Diversity
- Divorce and Separation
- Interventions and Techniques
- Life Events/Transitions
- Parenting Styles
- Sexuality
- Work/Life Issues, and more
Key features include:
- More than 500 signed articles written by key figures in the field span four comprehensive volumes
- Front matter includes a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically
- Back matter includes a history of the development of the field, a Resource Guide to key associations, websites, journals, a selected Bibliography of classic publications, and a detailed Index
- All entries conclude with References/Further Readings and Cross References to related entries to aid the reader in their research journey
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