Full Description
This widely used practitioner resource and training tool is the definitive work on understanding and treating personality disorders from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) perspective. The prominent editors and contributors explain the nature of personality disorders and why they are so challenging to treat. Chapters addressing 12 specific disorders are organized around vivid, instructive clinical examples. The book provides up-to-date scientific knowledge about each disorder and describes effective strategies for differential diagnosis, case conceptualization, implementing individualized CBT interventions, and overcoming roadblocks.
New to This Edition
*Incorporates cutting-edge clinical approaches and research; expands the cognitive theory of personality disorder.
*Chapters on neural mechanisms, cultural diversity issues, and depressive personality disorder.
*Chapters on co-occurring disorders and management of clinical challenges.
*Disorder-specific chapters now include sections on key treatment goals, progress and termination, and clinician self-care.
*Discusses DSM-5 concepts and diagnostic criteria.
*Reviews advances in assessing personality beliefs.
Contents
I. Theory, Research, and Clinical Methods
1. Overview of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Personality Disorders, Daniel O. David & Arthur Freeman
2. Theory of Personality Disorders, Aaron T. Beck
3. Assessment of Personality Pathology, Jay C. Fournier
4. Neural Mechanisms of Maladaptive Schemas and Modes in Personality Disorders, Michael T. Treadway
5. General Principles and Specialized Techniques in Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Aaron T. Beck, Arthur Freeman, & Denise D. Davis
6. The Therapeutic Alliance with Patients with Personality Disorders, Denise D. Davis & Judith S. Beck
7. Diversity, Culture, and Personality Disorders, James L. Rebeta
II. Clinical Applications
8. Dependent Personality Disorder, Lindsay Brauer & Mark A. Reinecke
9. Avoidant Personality Disorder, Christine A. Padesky & Judith S. Beck
10. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Karen M. Simon
11. Depressive Personality Disorder, David A. Clark & Catherine A. Hilchey
12. Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders, Julia C. Renton & Pawel D. Mankiewicz
13. Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (Negativistic Personality Disorder), Gina M. Fusco
14. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Wendy T. Behary & Denise D. Davis
15. Histrionic Personality Disorder, Mehmet Z. Sungur & Anil Gündüz
16. Antisocial Personality Disorder, Damon Mitchell, Raymond Chip Tafrate, & Arthur Freeman
17. Borderline Personality Disorder, Arnoud Arntz
III. Comorbidity and Clinical Management
18. Symptomatic Comorbidity, Robert A. DiTomasso & Bradley Rosenfield
19. Clinical Management: Working with Those Diagnosed with Personality Disorders, Gina M. Fusco
20. Synthesis and Prospects for the Future, Denise D. Davis & Arthur Freeman
