Educates clinicians and researchers on the diagnosis, assessment, management and treatment of adult separation anxiety
Covers differences in treatment approaches for adults, children and adolescents
Discusses the phenomenology of adult separation anxiety
Provides improved frameworks to conceptualize patients' psychological problems and behaviors
Includes clinical review questionnaire measures and structured interview schedules
Describes the effects of secondary conditioning
Vijaya Manicavasagar's work has focused on defining the diagnostic criteria for adult separation anxiety disorder and its overlap with other anxiety disorders including panic disorder and agoraphobia. She has recently run treatment studies for depression and bipolar disorder using innovative psychological interventions such as mindfulness meditation and wellbeing groups. Author of over 100 journal articles and 3 books.
Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding the development, manifestation, and treatment of adult separation anxiety. The book explores precursors and triggers to both childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder, comorbidity with other disorders and conditions, and characteristics of populations and individuals with separation anxiety. Assessment and treatment are comprehensively covered, discussing how treatment for adults difers from that for children. Clinical review questionnaires are included for immediate use in practice. - Reviews the diagnosis, assessment, management, and treatment of adult separation anxiety - Covers how treatment for adults differs from that for children - Identifies precursors and triggers to separation anxiety - Discusses comorbidity with other disorders and conditions - Includes clinical review questionnaire measures
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Vijaya Manicavasagar's work has focused on defining the diagnostic criteria for adult separation anxiety disorder and its overlap with other anxiety disorders including panic disorder and agoraphobia. She has recently run treatment studies for depression and bipolar disorder using innovative psychological interventions such as mindfulness meditation and wellbeing groups. Author of over 100 journal articles and 3 books.
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Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding the development, manifestation, and treatment of adult separation anxiety. The book explores precursors and triggers to both childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder, comorbidity with other disorders and conditions, and characteristics of populations and individuals with separation anxiety. Assessment and treatment are comprehensively covered, discussing how treatment for adults difers from that for children. Clinical review questionnaires are included for immediate use in practice.
- Reviews the diagnosis, assessment, management, and treatment of adult separation anxiety
- Covers how treatment for adults differs from that for children
- Identifies precursors and triggers to separation anxiety
- Discusses comorbidity with other disorders and conditions
- Includes clinical review questionnaire measures
Inhalt
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. A journey of discovery: separation anxiety disorder in adults
2. Making a diagnosis of separation anxiety 3. The assessment of separation anxiety and separation anxiety disorder
4. Characteristics of populations and individuals with adult separation anxiety disorder
5. Adult separation anxiety and attachment theory
6. Developmental models of separation anxiety disorder
7. Exploring the continuity hypothesis of separation anxiety
8. The biological foundations of separation anxiety
9. Precursors and triggers to childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder
10. Comorbidity with other disorders and conditions
11. Implications for the treatment of adult separation anxiety disorder
12. Issues and challenges associated with understanding adult separation anxiety disorder
The Separation Anxiety Symptom Inventory (SASI)
ASA-27
Index