| Description |
xiv, 243 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Conceptualizing dependency -- Ch. 2. Quantifying dependency -- Ch. 3. Dependency across the life span -- Ch. 4. Context-specific deficits and strengths -- Ch. 5. Healthy and unhealthy dependency -- Ch. 6. Diagnosis -- Ch. 7. Assessment -- Ch. 8. Approaches to treatment -- Ch. 9. An integrated treatment model -- Ch. 10. Specialized treatment issues |
| Summary |
"This book is about working effectively with dependent patients. It discusses cutting-edge treatment techniques, outlines strategies for diagnosing dependency, and reviews procedures for assessing dependency-related personality dynamics that are not captured by formal diagnostic criteria. The central premise of this book is straightforward: Dependency is an important issue in clinical practice, but it is also a ubiquitous feature of human experience. We are, in the end, social creatures, bound to each other from our first days to our last. Thus, effective clinical work with dependent patients does not involve quashing dependency in all its forms, but replacing unhealthy dependency with healthy connectedness"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) |
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"The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide presents an integrated, empirically based framework for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of dependent psychotherapy patients. Rather than being bound to a single theoretical view, The Dependent Patient integrates ideas and findings from a broad array of theoretical perspectives. This book will be a resource for any practitioner who works in an inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, or day treatment/partial hospitalization setting, regardless of the practitioner's background and level of training."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-233) and index |
| Subject |
Dependency (Psychology)
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| LC no. |
2004019485 |
| ISBN |
1591472032 alkaline paper |
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