Introduction The format of this chapter is written to illustrate a single case administration of Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) to an early-onset, chronically depressed 39-year-old male. Large…
Introduction Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is well established as an empirically supported treatment for unipolar depression in adults. This statement sounds straightforward enough, until we realize that depression is actually a…
How Do We Define Diverse Populations? Before beginning our review of the literature, we first briefly explain our approach to conceptualizing diversity. Diversity in psychology is a broad term that…
Major Depressive Disorder: Definition, Epidemiology, and Course The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition—DSM-IV) defines Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) as the presence of five (or more) of…
EXAMPLE: ICD CODES AND DSM SPECIFIERS ICD-9-CM Code Diagnosis ICD-10-CM Code 300.23 Social Anxiety Disorder F40.10 Specify if performance only Readers should note that code numbers for a disorder may…
* * * NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS DSM-5 replaces the chapter on disorders first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence with a new chapter, Neurodevelopmental Disorders. These disorders first appear in the…
list of assessment measures, accompanied by scoring and interpretation guidelines, are available from the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization. A limited number of dimensional and cross-cutting assessments…
CHAPTER 334 Critical Care Management of Traumatic Brain Injury Claudia Robertson, Leonardo Rangel-Castilla Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Every year, about 1.5…
CHAPTER 285 Lumbar Spine Stenosis Nancy E. Epstein Verbiest1–4 was one of the first to define central lumbar spinal stenosis, noting that laminectomy alone relieved radiculopathic symptoms for patients with…
CHAPTER 224 Vertebral Column and Spinal Cord Injuries in Children Dachling Pang, John G. Zovickian Injuries to the spinal cord and vertebral column are relatively uncommon in the pediatric age…
