Adaptive Thinking
in Mastering Your Adult ADHD
June 2005; p ublished online January 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy; Clinical Adult Psychology. 3179 words.
Chapter 9 covers adaptive thinking, and correponds to chapter 11 of the patient workbook. It includes materials needed, session outline, set agenda, review of the symptom severity scale,...
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Adaptive Thinking
in Mastering Your Adult ADHD
June 2005; p ublished online January 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy; Clinical Adult Psychology. 2264 words.
Chapter 11 introduces adaptive thinking, and covers goals, review of the symptom severity scale, medication, formulating rational responses, how to keep a thought records, potential...
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Adaptive Thinking
in Mastering Your Adult ADHD
May 2017; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy. 3882 words.
This chapter continues the discussion of the cognitive component of treatment for ADHD introduced in Chapter 8. It includes instructions for the therapist regarding how to review thought...
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Adaptive Thinking
in Mastering Your Adult ADHD
May 2017; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy. 2811 words.
This chapter continues the discussion of the cognitive component of ADHD. The primary goal is for clients to learn how to develop alternative thoughts to replace their negative and/or...
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Additional Symptom Areas over Time
in In the Fullness of Time
October 2018; p ublished online October 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 1802 words.
This chapter details the course of symptom areas that were not covered in Chapter 6, or were covered in a non-comprehensive manner. These symptom areas are anxiety, shame, dissociation, and...
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Adult ADHD Symptoms
in Could it be Adult ADHD?
March 2017; p ublished online March 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Clinical Psychology. 6565 words.
Understanding the symptoms of adult ADHD is an essential starting place. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders symptoms of ADHD are reviewed, including...
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Adult Victimization over Time
in In the Fullness of Time
October 2018; p ublished online October 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 1102 words.
At baseline, borderline patients reported higher rates of adult rape and physical assault by a partner than Axis II comparison subjects. Four risk factors were found to significantly...
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Advances in Child Personality Research and Relevance for Personality Pathology
in Using Basic Personality Research to Inform Personality Pathology
February 2019; p ublished online February 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Clinical Adult Psychology. 9798 words.
This chapter reviews the current state of research on defining and organizing normal-range personality traits in youth, the work defining and organizing maladaptive personality traits in...
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Affective Disorder—Description of the Sample Comprising the Largest of the Four Major Diagnostic Groups
in The Final Months
January 1981; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Psychopathology. 43539 words.
This chapter focuses on the members of the sample that were diagnosed as having affective disorder, depressed phase, which represented the largest single diagnostic group of the sample. It...
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Age-Related Issues That Affect CBT
in Treating Late Life Depression
September 2009; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Psychosocial Interventions and Psychotherapy. 6751 words.
Specific client groups often require specific procedural changes to ensure that the CBT model is applied optimally to facilitate improvement in the client’s level of adjustment and quality...
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Alcohol and Drug Problems
in A Family Guide to Coping with Substance Use Disorders
August 2019; p ublished online August 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 4343 words.
A substance problem is any negative outcome from prescription drug misuse, illegal drug use, or binge drinking. These problems often lead to substance use disorders (SUDs). Any substance...
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Alcoholism—Description of the Sample Comprising the Second Largest of the Four Major Diagnostic Groups
in The Final Months
January 1981; p ublished online June 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology; Psychopathology. 27859 words.
This chapter focuses on the members of the sample that were diagnosed as having alcoholism, which represented the second largest diagnostic group of the sample. It presents diagnostic...
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
in Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders
November 2016; p ublished online March 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Clinical Adult Psychology. 7893 words.
The symptoms that are considered characteristic of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS) are quite diverse and constitute distortions of regular sense perception (i.e., distortions of visual,...
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All You Need to Do to Close Your Practice Is to Stop Seeing Clients and Lock the Door
in If You Build It They Will Come
January 2019; p ublished online January 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 2528 words.
At some point in time most mental health clinicians in private practice will make a decision to close their practice. This chapter focuses on each private practitioner’s many ethical and...
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Alliance in Adult Psychotherapy
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work
June 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 20717 words.
The alliance continues to be one of the most investigated variables related to success in psychotherapy. In this chapter, the authors define and illustrate the alliance (also conceptualized...
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Alliance in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work
June 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 16689 words.
In youth treatment, the alliance has been defined and measured as a consensual or collaborative bond. This chapter reviews varied definitions of the alliance, enumerates its frequent...
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Alliances in Couple and Family Therapy
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work
June 2019; p ublished online May 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 21527 words.
This chapter reviews meta-analytic evidence for the alliance-outcome relation in couple and family therapy (CFT). The authors describe the unique features of CFT alliances and their...
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Alternatives to Self-Harm Program
in Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving for Borderline Personality Disorder
December 2016; p ublished online March 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Psychology; Clinical Adult Psychology. 6984 words.
This chapter describes the Alternatives to Self-Harm (ASH) program and its follow-up program, PHOENIX—programs that complement STEPPS and STAIRWAYS. ASH was developed for those individuals...
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Anticipating and Solving Problems
in Reclaiming Your Life from a Traumatic Experience
August 2019; p ublished online August 2019 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 3172 words.
Even with all of the authors’ experience working with survivors of trauma with this treatment, and even with all of the hard work of patients and therapists, sometimes it is difficult for...
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Antisocial and Conduct Disorders
in Evolutionary Psychopathology
June 2018; p ublished online July 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Clinical Adult Psychology. 5578 words.
The chapter discusses antisocial and conduct disorders, including conduct disorder (CD), oppositional-defiant disorder (ODD), antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and psychopathy. This...
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