Michael Thase

Handbook of Outpatient Treatment of Adults: Nonpsychotic Mental Disorders Michael Thase 1990 edition

Marc Notes: Includes index.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: I. General Issues.- 1. Interviewing and Diagnosis.- 2. Differentiating Physical from Psychiatric Disorders.- 3. Overview of Drug Treatment.- 4. Overview of Psychodynamic Treatment.- 5. Overview of Behavioral Treatment.- II. Specific Disorders.- 6. Mood Disorders.- 7. Chronic Depressive Disorders.- 8. Phobia.- 9. Panic Disorder.- 10. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- 11. Sexual Dysfunction.- 12. Male Sex Offenders.- 13. Somatoform Disorders.- 14. Borderline Disorders.- 15. Antisocial Personality Disorder.- 16. Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias.- 17. Selected Organic Brain Syndromes.- 18. Problem Drinking: Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies for Self-Control.- 19. Eating Disorders.- III. Special Populations.- 20. Marital Dysfunction.- 21. Adolescents and Young Adults.- 22. Geriatric Populations.- 23. The Vietnam Veteran.- 24. Mentally Retarded Adults.- 25. Mentally Ill Substance Abusers.- IV. Special Topics.- 26. Ethical and Legal Issues.- 27. The Suicidal Patient.- 28. Office Practice.- 29. Research in Outpatient Clinical Practice. Publisher Marketing: During the past several decades, the field of mental health care has expanded greatly. This expansion has been based on greater recognition of the prevalence and treatability of mental disorders, as well as the availability of a variety of forms of effective treatment. Indeed, throughout this period, our field has witnessed the introduction and the wide spread application of specific pharmacological treatments, as well as the development, refinement, and more broadly based availability of behavioral, psychodynamic, and marital and family interventions. The community mental health center system has come into being, and increasing numbers of mental health practitioners from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, and related professional disciplines have entered clinical practice. In concert with these developments, powerful sociopolitical and socioeconomic forces-including the deinstitutionalization movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the cost-containment responses of the 1980s, necessitated by the spiraling cost of health care-have shaped the greatest area of growth in the direction of outpatient services. This is particularly true of the initial assessment and treatment of nonpsychotic mental disorders, which now can often be managed in ambulatory-care settings. Thus, we decided that a handbook focusing on the outpatient treatment of mental disorders would be both timely and useful. When we first began outlining the contents of this book, the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor ders (DSM-III) was in its fourth year of use."

Contributor Bio:  Hersen, Michel Michel Hersen (Ph. D., ABPP, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966) is Professor and Dean of the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University. He completed his post-doctoral training at the West Have VA(Yale University School of Medicine Program). He isPast President of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He has coauthored and co-edited 146 books and has published 225 scientific journal articles. He is co-editor of several psychological journals, including Behavior Modification, Aggression & Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, Clinical Psychology Review, and Journal of Family Violence. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders and of Clinical Case Studies, which is totally devoted to description of clients and patients treated with psychotherapy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 4-volume work, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment. He has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the National Institute of Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research, and the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Distinguished Practitioner and Member of the National Academy of Practice in Psychology, and recipient of the Distinguished Career Achievement Award in 1996 from the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists and Psychodiagnosticians. Finally, at one point in his career, he was in full-time private practice and on several occasions he has had part-time private practices. Contributor Bio:  Thase, Michael E Dr. Thase is a Professor of Psychiatry, Medical and Research Director, Mood Disorders Module, and Associate Director, Clinical Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clini