Clinical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Adults and Children (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hudak, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Clinical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Adults and Children is a complete, comprehensive overview of OCD, covering its underlying causes, manifestations and treatment. The book begins by covering the basic science of OCD and its biological basis and mechanisms. It discusses the treatment for both adults and children with an emphasis on providing information for clinicians to use in their everyday practice. Using the latest information regarding evidence-based treatments, it takes the reader through medication options, including behavioural therapy, support groups and recent developments in surgical treatment. The clinical manifestations of OCD are covered, as well as the differentiation between OCD and other neuropsychiatric disorders with similar presentations. Chapters on spectrum illnesses including body dysmorphic disorder, impulse control disorders such as trichotillomania, and hoarding are also included. This book will appeal to all mental health professionals, from practitioners to researchers, working in the field of compulsive disorders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511994432
• Artikelnr.: 52998705

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: epidemiology and diagnosis
Robert Hudak; 2. Neurobiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder and its
relevance to surgical treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder Darin D.
Dougherty and Benjamin D. Greenberg; 3. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors in
the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder Signi A. Page and Robert
Hudak; 4. Augmentation of serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the treatment of
obsessive-compulsive disorder Andrew Goddard and Yong-Wook Shin; 5.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and comorbid mood disorders Jonathan S.
Abramowitz; 6. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: clinical
characterization and treatment Michael Poyurovsky; 7. Medication management
of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adolescents Andrew
Gilbert; 8. Exposure with response prevention treatment for
obsessive-compulsive disorder Fugen Neziroglu, Beth Forhman and Sony
Khemlani-Patel; 9. Compulsive hoarding Christina M. Gilliam and David F.
Tolin; 10. Cognitive-behavioural therapy for children and adolescents with
obsessive-compulsive disorder Aureen P. Wagner; 11. The influences of
community and society on obsessive-compulsive disorder Elaine Davis; 12.
The family in OCD treatment Andrea Allen and Stefano Pallanti; 13.
Providing treatment for patients with OCD Terri Laterza, Kalie Pierce and
Robert Hudak; 14. Body dysmorphic disorder Katharine Phillips; 15.
Trichotillomania and impulse control disorders Michael H. Bloch; Index.