This is an outstanding book that provides an excellent, up-to-date survey of some of the key issues in research on Mood Disorders from a variety of perspectives. It will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in this topic.
―Professor Jutta Joorman, Northwestern University.
This new edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders 2nd Edition reflects the numerous, important and fast-changing developments that have occurred in both theory and practice in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders, providing an up-to-date summary of these advancements. Areas of expertise have been updated by original contributors, highlighting key new developments and offering suggestions for the field’s future. In addition, this edition includes new sections covering family therapy, medical disorders and depression, and cross-cultural issues.
This volume’s broad coverage includes innovations in science and clinical practice, with consideration of new pharmacological treatments as well as psychological therapies. In contrast to the usual approach of presenting unipolar and bipolar disorders separately, the Handbook highlights the considerable scientific and clinical advantages of considering issues that are common to both.
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders 2nd Edition is the only current reference that gathers all of these developments together in a single volume. It will be an invaluable reverence tool for all mental health professionals.
From the Back Cover
This new edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders 2nd Edition reflects the numerous, important and fast-changing developments that have occurred in both theory and practice in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders, providing an up-to-date summary of these advancements. Areas of expertise have been updated by original contributors, highlighting key new developments and offering suggestions for the field’s future. In addition, this edition includes new sections covering family therapy, medical disorders and depression, and cross-cultural issues.
This volume’s broad coverage includes innovations in science and clinical practice, with consideration of new pharmacological treatments as well as psychological therapies. In contrast to the usual approach of presenting unipolar and bipolar disorders separately, the Handbook highlights the considerable scientific and clinical advantages of considering issues that are common to both.
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders 2nd Edition is the only current reference that gathers all of these developments together in a single volume. It will be an invaluable reverence tool for all mental health professionals.
About the Author
Mick Power is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Tromsø in Norway. For many years he has worked with the World Health Organization to develop a measure of quality of life, the WHOQOL that is now in widespread use. He is also the author of, amongst others, Handbook of Evidence-based Psychotherapies (Wiley, 2007), Cognition and Emotion: From Order to Disorder, 2/e (with Tim Dalgleish, 2008) and Adieu to God – Why Psychology Leads to Atheism (Wiley, 2012). He is a founding editor of the journal Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy.
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