Bruce Carruth, Gary G Forrest

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Psychotherapy and Assessment Strategies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies. From its helpful pages that contain diagnostic criteria and clinical interviewing and assessment guidelines, you learn to accurately diagnose substance use and antisocial personality disorders. The book also provides you with the historical and clinical perspectives of such disorders and their epidemiology and etiology to give you a thorough background and understanding of the subject. Case studies and therapy vignettes are included to provide you with actual clinical examples to illustrate concepts and ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781560243083
• ISBN-10: 1560243082
• Artikelnr.: 22282193

Autorenporträt

Bruce Carruth, Gary G Forrest

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
* Section One. Epidemiology, Etiology, and Differential Diagnosis
* Introduction
* Historical Perspective: Chemical Dependency and Antisocial
Personality Disorder
* Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders and Antisocial Personality
Disorder
* Etiology of Substance Use Disorders and Antisocial Personality
Disorder
* Differential Diagnosis of Substance Use Disorders, Antisocial
Personality Disorder, and Related Personality Disorders
* Conclusion to Section One
* Section Two. Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation
* Treatment Implications: Introduction and Overview
* Dual Diagnosis Dilemmas: Treatment of Chemically Dependent Patients
With Concurrent Antisocial Personality Disorder
* Uses of Structure in the Treatment of Chemically Dependent Patients
With Impulse Control Problems
* Treatment of Chemically Dependent Offenders in Correctional Settings
* Therapist-Patient Relationship Dynamics
* Psychotherapy and Assessment of the Dangerous Patient
* Treatment Outcome Effectiveness, Relapse, and Recovery
* Conclusion to Section Two
* Bibliography
* Index