Personality Disorders and Older Adults - Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment

The older adult population is booming in the United State and across the globe. With this boom comes an increase in the number of older adults who experience psychological disorders. Current estimates suggest that about 20% of older persons are diagnosable with a mental disorder: Personality disorders are among the most poorly understood, challenging, and frustrating of these disorders among older adults. This book is designed to provide scholarly and scientifically-based guidance about the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders to health professionals, mental health professionals, and senior service professionals who encounter personality-disordered or "difficult" older adults.

Sommario

Foreword.
Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Personality Disorders and Aging.

The Demographics of Aging.

Mental Health and Aging: The Big Picture.

Overview of Personality and Personality Disorder.

History of the Personality Disorder Category.

Modern Conceptualizations.

The DSM-IV-TR Personality Disorders.

Challenges Associated with Personality Disorder Psychopathology.

Conclusions.

About This Book.

Chapter 2. The Odd and Eccentric (Cluster A) Personality Disorders and Aging.

General Diagnostic Criteria.

Cluster A Personality Disorders: Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal.

Paranoid Personality Disorder.

Schizoid Personality Disorder.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

Chapter 3. The Dramatic, Emotional, and Erratic (Cluster B) Personality Disorders and Aging.

Cluster B Personality Disorders: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic.

Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder.

Histrionic Personality Disorder.

Narcissitic Personality Disorder.

Chapter 4. The Fearful or Anxious (Cluster C) Personality Disorders and Aging.

Cluster C Personality Disorders: Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive.

Avoidant Personality Disorder.

Dependent Personality Disorder.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.

Chapter 5. Other Personality Disorders and Aging: Sadistic, Self-Defeating, Depressive, Passive-Aggressive, and Inadequate.

Personality Disorders in DSM-III-R Appendix A and in DSM-IV-TR Appendix B.

Sadistic Personality Disorder: DSM-III-R Appendix A.

Self-Defeating Personality Disorder: DSM-III-R Appendix A.

Depressive Personality Disorder: DSM-IV-TR Appendix B.

Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: DSM-IV-TR Appendix B.

Inadequate Personality Disorder-A Manifestation of Frontal Lobe Syndrome?

Inadequate Personality Disorder.

Chapter 6. Epidemiology and Comorbidity.

Epidemiology of Personality Disorders in Later Adult Life.

Community and Psychiatric Samples.

The Debate about Stability versus Change for the Personality Disorders.

Epidemiology and Gender.

Course and Prognosis for the Personality Disorders.

Comorbidity: General Issues.

Comorbidity of Personality Disorders with Clinical Disorders and with other Personality Disorders.

Personality Disorders and Dementia.

Conclusions.

Chapter 7. Theories of Personality Disorders: Cognitive, Psychoanalytic, and Interpersonal.

Cognitive Theories of Personality Disorders.

Cognitive Therapy Basics.

Application to Personality Disorders.

Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality Disorders.

Provinces and Instincts of the Psyche.

Neuroses, Psychoses, and Personality Disorders.

Psychoanalytic Theory and Aging.

A Brief Note about the Humanistic Approach.

Interpersonal Theories of Personality Disorders.

Horney's Interpersonal View of the Personality, Personality Disorders, and the Basic Conflict.

Horney's Description of Types.

The Resolution of Neurotic Conflict.

Horney, Feminist Psychology, and Humanism.

Horney, Aging, and Personality Disorders.

Conclusions.

Chapter 8. Theories of Personality Disorders: Evolutionary and Neurobiological.

Evolutionary Theories of Personality Disorders.

Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Theory.

Application to Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Dependent, and Avoidant Personality Disorders.

Application to Borderline Personality Disorder.

Application to Paranoid Personality Disorder.

Application to Schizoid, Schizotypal, and Avoidant Personality Disorders.

Neurobiological Theories of Personality Disorders.

Conclusions.

Chapter 9. Assessment.

Chart/Records Review.

The Clinical Interview of the Patient.

Interview with Informants.

Self-Report Objective Personality Instruments.

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III.

Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Fourth Edition Plus.

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Relazione

"It really is an outstanding book!" (PsycCritiques, Monday 24th September 2007)

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Frederick L Coolidge, Frederick L. Coolidge, Frederick L. (Department of Psychology Coolidge, Erlene Rosowsky, Erlene (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology) Rosowsky, Daniel L Segal, Daniel L. Segal, Daniel L. (Department of Psychology Segal
• Editore: Wiley & Sons
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780471649830
• ISBN: 978-0-471-64983-0
• Pagine: 352
• Peso: 780 g
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia