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A direct and personalized approach to helping practitioners and students understand the diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR, this book organizes the relevant current literature in the treatment of the major mental disorders into a carefully structured format that helps clinicians quickly assess the client and develop successful treatment plans. Thoroughly revised and updated, this guide includes expanded coverage of childhood disorders and grief, loss, and bereavement, as well as more information on treatment strategies for dual diagnosis.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Chapter 1 Introduction to Effective Treatment Planning(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Mental Disorders in Infants, Children, and Adolescents(p. 41)
• Chapter 3 Situationally Precipitated Disorders and Conditions(p. 125)
• Chapter 4 Mood Disorders(p. 149)
• Chapter 5 Anxiety Disorders(p. 191)
• Chapter 6 Disorders of Behavior and Impulse Control(p. 239)
• Chapter 7 Disorders in Which Physical and Psychological Factors Combine(p. 319)
• Chapter 8 Personality Disorders(p. 347)
• Chapter 9 Disorders Involving Impairment in Awareness of Reality: Psychotic and Dissociative Disorders(p. 403)
• Chapter 10 The Future of Diagnosis and Treatment Planning(p. 439)
• Appendix(p. 453)
• References(p. 461)
• About the Authors(p. 517)
• Author Index(p. 519)
• Subject Index(p. 547)

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CHOICE Review

In this third edition, Seligman (emer., George Mason) and Reichenberg (Marymount Univ.) provide clinicians with a comprehensive and systematic guide for treatment of mental disorders based on the most recent evidence-based research. Seligman developed the mnemonic "Do a Client Map" for the assessment framework used to guide clinicians' treatment design decisions: Diagnosis, Objectives/outcomes, Assessments, Clinician characteristics, Location of treatment, Interventions, Emphasis of treatment, Numbers, Timing, Medications, Adjunct services, Prognosis. The authors discuss the multiple theoretical approaches to treatment, the importance of the therapeutic alliance, and many of the disorders identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR (4th ed., 2000). They include many lucid case studies to help health care professionals develop well-structured and effective treatment plans for clients. The last chapter speculates on the future of diagnosis and treatment planning, with an emphasis on the effects of neurobiology, genetics, pharmacology, the creation of a new classification of mental disorders (DSM-V), evidence-based practice expectations, and computerized counseling. The reference list is meticulous and the writing exceedingly readable. As the text's title suggests, this is indeed a comprehensive and systematic guide to the treatment of mental disorders. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. D. B. Hamilton Western Michigan University

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Linda Seligman was a professor emerita of counseling and development at George Mason University. She authored fifteen books and was named Counselor Educator of the Year and Researcher of the Year by the American Mental Health Counselors Association. She died in 2007.
Lourie W. Reichenberg is a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Falls Church, Virginia, where she also provides clinical supervision. She is currently at work on her fourth book.