Personality Disorders: Recognition: Recognition and Clinical Management
Author(s): Jonathan H. Dowson (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 21 Aug. 2008
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 416 pages
ISBN-10: 0521029031
ISBN-13: 9780521029032
Book Description
Personality disorders consist of long-term patterns of maladaptive behaviour which have a generally unrecognised importance in clinical practice. However, personality disorders are the origins of many medical consultations and social ills, including substance abuse, alcoholism, self-harm, suicide, neglect of children, criminality and HIV transmission. In a comprehensive summary and evaluation of the clinical literature, this book seeks to dispel the myth that personality disorder is simply a category for those problem individuals for whom nothing can be done. With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, Drs Dowson and Grounds provide a co-ordinated empirically-based account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists and allied disciplines, including clinical psychologists, social workers, criminologists, specialist nurses and primary care physicians.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This book is a tremendous outing for that enfant terrible of psychiatry, personality disorder.’ Bill Fulford, The Times Higher Education Supplement
Book Description
A detailed and comprehensive account of the features of personality disorders with emphasis on strategies for clinical management.
From the Back Cover
Although the long-term patterns of problem-behaviour that form personality disorders are part of the major classifications of disease, they have a generally unrecognized importance in clinical practice. These disorders are the origins of many medical consultations and social ills, perhaps associated with self-harm, suicide, neglect of children, criminality, alcohol and drug abuse, HIV transmission and ‘accidents’. In a comprehensive summary and evaluation of the clinical literature, this book seeks to dispel the myth that personality disorder is simply a category for those problem individuals for whom nothing can be done. With detailed coverage of recognition, assessment and management, Drs Dowson and Grounds provide a co-ordinated empirically-based account of those aspects of personality disorders which are of relevance to psychiatrists and allied disciplines, including clinical psychologists, social workers, criminologists, specialist nurses and primary care physicians. It describes how many individuals with personality disorders can be helped by health care services.
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