Daniel L. Segal – författare

Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Volume 2 presents the most up-to-date coverage on personality assessment from leading experts. Contains contributions from leading researchers in this area.Provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on personality assessment.Presents conceptual information about the tests.

Personality and Everyday Functioning covers the foundations of personality theory and the impact of personality on normal functioning. Leading personality researchers present chapters on major theories of personality, such as psychoanalytic, developmental, behavioral, and constructivist, to name a few.

The older adult population is booming in the United State and across the globe. With this boom comes an increase in the number of older adults who experience psychological disorders. Current estimates suggest that about 20% of older persons are diagnosable with a mental disorder: Personality disorders are among the most poorly understood, challenging, and frustrating of these disorders among older adults. This book is designed to provide scholarly and scientifically-based guidance about the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders to health professionals, mental health professionals, and senior service professionals who encounter personality-disordered or "difficult" older adults.

A cornerstone of the professional therapeutic relationship and a vital prerequisite to effective treatment, the diagnostic interview sets the tone for interventions that follow. This welcome update to the authoritative textbook includes coverage of foundational and advanced skills and strategies for effective clinical and diagnostic interviewing. Completely revised and updated to correspond to the DSM-5-TR and to reflect the latest innovations in theory and evidence-based practice, this instructive book offers a wealth of useful interviewing strategies and techniques. Specific interviewing approaches are discussed for diverse settings and diverse clients across a variety of presenting problems and mental disorders, as well as keys to ensuring that the interview process is effective and clinically sound. As with its predecessors, this volume emphasizes the value of the interview as the foundation for treatment planning, intervention, and the healing therapeutic relationship.Among the topics covered:Ethical and professional issues.Interviewing strategies, rapport, and empathy.Presenting problem, history of presenting problem, and social history.The mental status examination.Consideration of neuropsychological factors in interviewing.Specific disorders including depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, trauma and stressor-related disorders, dissociative disorders, somatic symptom disorders, eating disorders, sexual dysfunctions and gender dysphoria, substance use disorders, personality disorders, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Special populations, including children, older adults, interviewing in health, medical, and integrated care settings, and interviewing individuals at risk for suicide.Previous editions of Diagnostic Interviewing have been used in the training and education of diverse mental health professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counsellors. This Sixth Edition will continue this tradition, aiding students, new practitioners, and seasoned clinicians.

Fully updated and revised, this new edition of a highly successful text provides students, clinicians, and academics with a thorough introduction to aging and mental health.The third edition of Aging and Mental Health is filled with new updates and features, including the impact of the DSM-5 on diagnosis and treatment of older adults. Like its predecessors, it uses case examples to introduce readers to the field of aging and mental health. It also provides both a synopsis of basic gerontology needed for clinical work with older adults and an analysis of several facets of aging well.Introductory chapters are followed by a series of chapters that describe the major theoretical models used to understand mental health and mental disorders among older adults. Following entries are devoted to the major forms of mental disorders in later life, with a focus on diagnosis, assessment, and treatment issues. Finally, the book focuses on the settings and contexts of professional mental health practice and on emerging policy issues that affect research and practice. This combination of theory and practice helps readers conceptualize mental health problems in later life and negotiate the complex decisions involved with the assessment and treatment of those problems. Features new material on important topics including positive mental health, hoarding disorder, chronic pain, housing, caregiving, and ethical and legal concernsSubstantially revised and updated throughout, including reference to the DSM-5Offers chapter-end recommendations of websites for further informationIncludes discussion questions and critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter Aging and Mental Health, Third Edition is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, for service providers in psychology, psychiatry, social work, and counseling, and for clinicians who are experienced mental health service providers but who have not had much experience working specifically with older adults and their families.