Treating Mental Disorders A Guide to What Works

by Nathan, Peter E.; Gorman, Jack M.; Salkind, Neil J.

• ISBN13: 9780195102284
• ISBN10: 0195102282
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

For layperson and professional alike, Treating Mental Disorders: A Guide to What Works offers a comprehensive and highly readable compendium of the best psychotherapeutic and drug treatments available today. A more accessible distillation of the award-winning professional book, A Guide toTreatments That Work, this volume has been thoroughly revised to be more user-friendly while drawing upon the same outstanding empirical research as its predecessor. Devoting chapters to thirteen types of mental disorder, the authors employ a question-and-answer format to clearly communicate the latest knowledge on the wide variety of treatments available today. Each chapter discusses the definition and diagnosis of a particular disorder and then emphasizeswhich treatments work best, considering both psychotherapies and drug options, combinations of the two, as well as the pros and cons of each therapy. Topics include: childhood disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual disorders, substance abuse, image disorders, depression and bipolardisorders, anxiety disorders and phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and disorders of aging. Each chapter concludes with a section that supplies the reader with additional information on a given disorder, including books,Internet sites, and addresses of advice groups and professional organizations.Accessible, completely up-to-date, and easy to use, Treating Mental Disorders is the best place to start for anyone seeking help for any number of mental disorders and an essential reference for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and anyone else involved in providing treatment for mentalillness.

Author Biography

Peter E. Nathan is the University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the editor of Behavioral Approaches to Alcoholism and Alcohol Use and Misuse. Jack M. Gorman is Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Deputy Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the author of The Essential Guide to Mental Health and The Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs. Neil J. Salkind is Professor of Educational Psychology and Research at the University of Kansas and the author of Child Development. Drs. Nathan and Gorman are the coeditors of the prize-winning professional book, A Guide to Treatments That Work (OUP).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Summary of Treatment That Work	xxi
Generic and Trade Medications	xxv
Childhood Disorders	1	(24)
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	1	(12)
Conduct Disorder	13	(12)
Eating Disorders	25	(16)
Anorexia Nervosa	25	(6)
Bulimia Nervosa	31	(10)
Sleep Disorders	41	(10)
Insomnia	41	(10)
Sexual Disorders	51	(24)
Sexual Dysfunction	51	(12)
Paraphilias	63	(12)
Substance Use Disorders	75	(12)
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders	87	(14)
Somatoform Disorders	87	(6)
Dissociative Disorders	93	(8)
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders	101	(20)
Major Depressive Disorder	101	(9)
Bipolar (Manic Depressive) Disorder	110	(11)
Anxiety and Phobic Disorders	121	(18)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder	121	(5)
Panic Disorder	126	(4)
Phobias	130	(9)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	139	(12)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	151	(10)
Schizophrenia	161	(20)
Personality Disorders	181	(12)
Disorders of Aging	193	(10)
Index	203