Handbook of Outpatient Treatment of Adults

1. Specific Disorders

   1. Problem Drinking

      • Alan R. Lang, Michael Kidorf

      Pages 413-441

   2. Eating Disorders

      • L. K. George Hsu

      Pages 443-460

2. Special Populations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 461-461

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   2. Marital Dysfunction

      • Gary R. Birchler, Madeline Gershwin

      Pages 463-488

   3. Adolescents and Young Adults

      • Dale J. Hindmarsh

      Pages 489-511

   4. Geriatric Populations

      • Robert S. Marin

      Pages 513-539

   5. The Vietnam Veteran

      • Benjamin Bursten

      Pages 541-559

   6. Mentally Retarded Adults

      • Dennis H. Reid, Jeffrey R. Fitzgerald

      Pages 561-575

   7. Mentally Ill Substance Abusers

      • Bick Wanck

      Pages 577-603

3. Special Topics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 605-605

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   2. Ethical and Legal Issues

      • C. V. Haldipur, Robert C. Long

      Pages 607-626

   3. The Suicidal Patient

      • Jerome A. Motto

      Pages 627-645

   4. Office Practice

      • Edward Dengrove

      Pages 647-662

   5. Research in Outpatient Clinical Practice

      • Steven C. Hayes, Joseph R. Haas

      Pages 663-680

4. Back Matter

   Pages 681-684

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During the past several decades, the field of mental health care has expanded greatly. This expansion has been based on greater recognition of the prevalence and treatability of mental disorders, as well as the availability of a variety of forms of effective treatment. Indeed, throughout this period, our field has witnessed the introduction and the wide­ spread application of specific pharmacological treatments, as well as the development, refinement, and more broadly based availability of behavioral, psychodynamic, and marital and family interventions. The community mental health center system has come into being, and increasing numbers of mental health practitioners from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, and related professional disciplines have entered clinical practice. In concert with these developments, powerful sociopolitical and socioeconomic forces-including the deinstitutionalization movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the cost-containment responses of the 1980s, necessitated by the spiraling cost of health care-have shaped the greatest area of growth in the direction of outpatient services. This is particularly true of the initial assessment and treatment of nonpsychotic mental disorders, which now can often be managed in ambulatory-care settings. Thus, we decided that a handbook focusing on the outpatient treatment of mental disorders would be both timely and useful. When we first began outlining the contents of this book, the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor­ ders (DSM-III) was in its fourth year of use.

• Focusing
• Syndrom
• assessment
• dementia
• diagnosis
• intervention
• mood disorder
• psychiatric disorder
• psychiatry
• psychology

• Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA

  Michael E. Thase

• West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

  Barry A. Edelstein

• Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, USA

  Michel Hersen

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