Title Making diagnosis meaningful : enhancing evaluation and treatment of psychological disorders / edited by James W. Barron

Published Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 1998

Click on the following:
APA PsycBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 363 pages) : tables Contents The DSM-IV and its antecedents : enhancing syndromal diagnosis / Peter E. Nathan -- Meaning and melancholia : why the DSM-IV cannot (entirely) ignore the patient's intentional system / Jerome C. Wakefield -- A psychodynamic approach to the diagnosis of psychopathology / Sidney J. Blatt and Kenneth N. Levy -- Case formulation and personality diagnosis : two processes or one? / Drew Weston -- The role of ego mechanisms of defense in the diagnosis of personality disorders / George E. Vaillant and Leigh McCullough -- Assessment in transitional family therapy : the importance of context / William H. Watson and Susan H. McDaniel -- Relationship. subjectivity, and inference in diagnosis / Nancy McWilliams -- Psychological testing, psychodiagnosis, and psychotherapy / Bruce L. Smith -- An experiential psychoanalytic approach to the assessment process / Paul M. Lerner and Howard D. Lerner -- Depression : intervention as assessment / Enrico E. Jones -- Assessment of the patient with borderline personality disorder for psychodynamic treatment / John F. Clarkin, Otto F. Kernberg, and Javiera Somavia -- Reassessing a person with schizophrenia and developing a new treatment plan / Courtenay M. Harding Summary The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) has long been considered the Bible of diagnosis and treatment, and is the foundation of treatment decisions made by managed care companies. Yet many mental health professionals are expressing increasing, and voluble, discontent with the DSM as a diagnostic tool. Among the criticisms they direct at the DSM include its reliance on a medical model and its excessive focus on reliability at the expense of validity. /// The contributors to this volume explore these and many other concerns about the DSM system and propose new ways of looking at the diagnostic and treatment activities of therapists. This collection of diverse professional viewpoints contributes to the ongoing dialogue about diagnosis and how it can be meaningfully related to what clinicians do in their actual work with patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Issuing Body Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection Notes English Print version record In PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO SUBJECT Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders -- Evaluation Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fast Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders gnd Subject Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Evaluation Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Philosophy Mental illness -- Treatment. Psychotherapist and patient. Psychodynamic psychotherapy. Medical personnel and patient. Mental Disorders -- evaluation Mental Disorders -- diagnosis Professional-Patient Relations Mental Disorders -- therapy Medical personnel and patient Evaluation Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Evaluation Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Philosophy Mental illness -- Treatment Psychodynamic psychotherapy Psychotherapist and patient Psychologische Diagnostik Wissenschaftstheorie Aufsatzsammlung Psychodiagnostiek. Diagnostic and statistical manual. Psychotherapie. Form Electronic book Author Barron, James W., 1944- American Psychological Association.

  Permalink