Adjustment Disorder

This book has very much improved my understanding of the complexities of adjustment disorder ... It seems to me that it fills a distinct gap in the literature and that it could foster improvement in the diagnosis and understanding of AD.

Préface
Highly Commended in the Psyschiatry category at the BMA Book Awards 2019

Auteur
Patricia Casey is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at University College Dublin, Ireland and the Editor of BJPsych Advances for the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Texte du rabat

Adjustment Disorder: From Controversy to Clinical Practice provides concise and comprehensive information on Adjustment Disorder and advances a greater understanding and better diagnostic skills among those clinicians working with this group of patients.

Contenu

• 1: Patricia Casey: History of the concept of adjustment disorders

• 2: Patricia Casey: How common is adjustment disorder?

• 3: Patricia Casey: The diagnostic quagmire: Philosophical issues

• 4: Patricia Casey: Models, risks, and protections

• 5: Anne Doherty: The biological basis of adjustment disorders

• 6: Patricia Casey: Making the diagnosis in clinical practice

• 7: Patricia Casey: Treatment of adjustment disorders

• 8: Patricia Casey: The course and prognosis of adjustment disorders

• 9: Aisling Mulligan: Adjustment disorders in child and adolescent psychiatry

• 10: Elspeth Bradley, Sheila Hollins, Marika Korossy, and Andrew Levitas: Adjustment disorder in disorders of intellectual development

• 11: Geoffrey Reid: Adjustment disorder: An occupational perspective (with particular focus on the military)

• 12: Keith Rix: Adjustment disorders in legal settings