The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings.
Grounded in scholarly review and illustrated with a diversity of case studies, this book covers familiar ground with comprehensive detail, including the description of personality disorders, diagnosis, epidemiology, aetiology, and treatment strategies. Furthermore, this new edition reflects changes in the new ICD-11 and DSM-5, assessment instruments, and state-of-the-art insights from theory-driven research.
Part of the popular 'Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course' series, Personality Disorders offers excellent coverage on all aspects of personality disorder and will be extremely informative for students and practitioners alike.
Autorentext
Paul M.G. Emmelkamp is Professor of Clinical Psychology (ret.) and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam.
Katharina Meyerbröker is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University and is affiliated as a licensed mental health psychologist at Altrecht Mental Health Institute.
Klappentext
The new edition of Personality Disorders continues to provide an in-depth guide to personality disorders, assessment, and treatment, across varied patient groups and settings.
Grounded in scholarly review and illustrated with a diversity of case studies, this book covers familiar ground with comprehensive detail, including the description of personality disorders, diagnosis, epidemiology, aetiology, and treatment strategies. Furthermore, this new edition reflects changes in the new ICD-11 and DSM-5, assessment instruments, and state-of-the-art insights from theory-driven research.
Part of the popular 'Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course' series, Personality Disorders offers excellent coverage on all aspects of personality disorder and will be extremely informative for students and practitioners alike.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements
1. Description of personality disorders
2. Diagnosis and assessment
3. Epidemiology and course
4. Risk factors for personality disorders
5. The anxious/inhibited personality disorders
6. Borderline personality disorder
7. The narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders
8. Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy
9. Schizotypal, schizoid, and paranoid personality disorders
10. Treatment of personality disorders
References
Author index
Subject index