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…
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…
* * * 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…
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…
Chapter 11 GROUP THERAPY Gary M. Burlingame Debra Theobald McClendon A comprehensive definition of group psychotherapy includes groups that are used for the purpose of prevention, guidance, counseling, and training…
CHAPTER 7 PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY Jeffrey J. Magnavita The psychoanalytic approach began with Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and the use of free association at the end of the nineteenth century…
CHAPTER 2 BEHAVIOR THERAPY Richard E. Zinbarg James W. Griffith The central defining feature of behavior therapy is that it involves the application of the laws of learning theory to…
CHAPTER 3 COGNITIVE THERAPY Scott H. Kellogg Jeffrey E. Young Cognitive therapy, now often incorporated as a part of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), has emerged as one of the leading schools…
