The Assessment of Psychosis (eBook, PDF)

A Reference Book and Rating Scales for Research and Practice
Redaktion: Waters, Flavie; Stephane, Massoud

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews the descriptive features of psychotic symptoms in various medical conditions (psychiatric, early psychosis, general medical, neurological and dementia), non-medical settings (individuals without the need for care or at high risk for psychosis) and age groups (children and adolescents, adults, older adults). Similarly, the perspectives of many disciplines are provided (history, psychiatry, psychology, psychopathology, neurology, phenomenological philosophy) so that readers may become familiar with different approaches that are used to define, evaluate and categorize psychosis, at times independently of clinical diagnosis. This book is a resource book for those requiring an understanding of clinical and conceptual issues associated with psychosis, with chapters written by academics and clinicians who are leaders in their respective fields. The book also provides a guide regarding the methods of assessment for psychosis and its symptoms, with 120 rating scales, which are described and evaluated. The Assessment of Psychosis will be particularly useful to the clinical and research community, but also to readers interested in individual differences and human psychopathology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134628698
• Artikelnr.: 41938844

Autorenporträt

Flavie Waters, PhD, is a leading cognitive neuroscientist who has made important contributions to the understanding of psychotic symptoms. She is the founder and scientific chair of the International Consortium on Hallucination Research and is the author of numerous scientific articles that have been highly cited. A common theme in her research is to combine different branches of knowledge that can come together in a boldly ambitious effort to better understand psychosis and pursue new interventions approaches. Massoud Stephane, MD, is an influential psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose expertise spans neurology, psychiatry and in vivo brain imaging. A lot of his research is based on the patient experience as a starting point, and he made significant contributions to the understanding of hallucinatory experiences and cognitive and linguistic disturbances in schizophrenia. He is well published and highly cited in these domains.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: What is Psychosis? McCarthy-Jones
History of Concepts about Psychosis. Parnas
Psychosis from a Philosophical/Phenomenological Perspective. Jardri
Psychosis and the Brain. Jansson
Near Psychosis. Part II: Assessment of Psychosis in Different Populations Castle
How to Assess Psychosis: A Practical Guide. Lockey
Assessing Psychosis in Forensic Settings. Laroi
Psychotic-Like Experiences in Non-Clinical Populations. Sommer
Psychosis in Psychiatric Disorders. Schulz
Psychosis in the Prodrome. Kelleher
Psychosis in Children and Adolescents. Starkstein
Psychosis in Medical and Neurological Conditions. Ford
Older Adults and Dementia Populations. Part III: Assessment of Psychotic Symptoms Stephane
Auditory Hallucinations. Langdon
Waters
Hallucinations: Visual
Olfactory
and Tactile. Peters
Delusions. Shad
Language (Formal Thought) Disorder. Amador
Insight. Parnas
Disturbance of the Experience of Self (Introspection-Based Assessment). Waters
First Rank Symptoms.