Full Description
This book explores nidotherapy: the systematic process of changing the physical, social, and personal environment for clients who have failed to respond fully to conventional treatments.
Peter Tyrer argues that clients with personality disorders can improve enormously when placed in the right environment and introduces the process of nidotherapy. The chapters explore methods of matching the patient to the environment, modification of the environment, and patient adaptation, along with case examples and a glossary of key terms. Additionally, the use of ICD-11 classification to understand all aspects of a person's personality is explored to assess personality difficulty, social prescribing, and treatments for severe personality disorder.
This book is essential for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and mental health professionals who treat personality disorders, as well as graduate students in clinical psychology courses.
Contents
1. Defining current thinking in personality disorders and nidotherapy 2. Why ICD-11 helps facilitate treatment of personality disorder 3. Domains of personality 4. The borderline conundrum 5. Understanding personality involves being honest with yourself 6. General principles of adaptation 7. Why nidotherapy can help adaptation 8. Adapting to personality difficulty 9. Adapting to negative affectivity 10. Adapting to the detachment domain 11. Adapting to the dissociality domain 12. Adapting to the disinhibited domain 13. Adapting to the anankastic domain 14. Adaptation in practice 15. Adapting nidotherapy to mental health services 16. Adaptive approaches for Galenic syndromes 17. Adapting to unstable environments 18. The treatment of severe personality disorder 19. Personality disorder and stigma
