Clinical Topics in Psychotherapy

Edited by Digby Tantam


Price: £30.00

 

College members' price: £27.00

 

Published: Dec 1998

 

Format: paperback

 

Number of pages: 304

 

ISBN: 9781901242225


Clinical Topics in Psychotherapy is a practical guide to the evidence-based practice of psychotherapy. It deals with those conditions which are of the greatest public health importance and which present some of the greatest challenges to psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists and counsellors. For a given condition, each chapter considers the whole range of psychotherapeutic approaches applicable, and the evidence for their effectiveness. Physical treatmentsis are also reviewed where appropriate. The emphasis is what works in practice, and why.

 

The contributors are all psychiatrists as well as psychotherapists and acknowledged experts in their fields. The chapters will therefore be of interest to experienced medical psychotherapists, and the practical emphasis of the book means that it will also be of interest to psychiatrists and general practitioners who use psychotherapeutic methods, and to psychotherapists and counsellors treating patients in medical settings.

 

Contents

  • Contributors.
  • Preface.
  • Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders. Rick Driscoll and Digby Tantam.
  • Psychological treatments for depression. Jan Scott.
  • Psychotherapy for personality and relationship disorders. Anthony Ryle.
  • The management of the positive symptoms of psychosis. Chris Jackson and Max Birchwood.
  • Emotional disorders in primary care. D. H. Gath and L. M. Mynors-Wallis.
  • Psychological interventions in HIV infection. Jose Catalan.
  • Emotional disorder in chronic illness: psychotherapeutic interventions. Elspeth Guthrie.
  • Psychotherapy of patients with cancer. Peter Maguire.
  • Psychological treatments for eating disorders. Janet Treasure.
  • Victims and perpetrators of child sexual abuse. M. R. Hilton and G. C. Mezey.
  • The offender. Chris Cordess.
  • Learning disability and developmental disorders. Sheila Hollins and Valerie Sinason.
  • Sexual dysfunctions. Keith Hawton
  • Stress and trauma. Stuart Turner.
  • Psychiatric emergencies. Tom Burns.
  • Psychotherapy, culture and ethnicity. Dinesh Bhugra and Digby Tantam.
  • Disorders of childhood. Paul Garfield and Rory Nicol.
  • Psychotherapy for bipolar disorder. Jan Scott.

 

© 2006 Royal College of Psychiatrists