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.
Chapter
Chapter 2. Theory of Personality Disorders
Chapter 3. Assessment of Personality Pathology
Chapter 4. Neural Mechanisms of Maladaptive Schemas and Modes in Personality Disorders
Chapter 5. General Principles and Specialized Techniques in Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders
Chapter 6. The Therapeutic Alliance with Patients with Personality Disorders
Chapter 7. Diversity, Culture, and Personality Disorders
Part II. Clinical Applications
Chapter 8. Dependent Personality Disorder
Chapter 9. Avoidant Personality Disorder
Chapter 10. Obsessive–Compulsive Personality Disorder
Chapter 11. Depressive Personality Disorder
Chapter 12. Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders
Chapter 13. Passive–Aggressive Personality Disorder (Negativistic Personality Disorder)
Chapter 14. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Chapter 15. Histrionic Personality Disorder
Chapter 16. Antisocial Personality Disorder
Chapter 17. Borderline Personality Disorder
Part III. Comorbidity and Clinical Management
Chapter 18. Symptomatic Comorbidity
Chapter 19. Clinical Management: Working with Those Diagnosed with Personality Disorders
Chapter 20. Synthesis and Prospects for the Future