Books published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Authoritative, comprehensive, and cutting-edge, the Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice is the single most important resource for clinicians and trainees learning about-and incorporating-MBT into their therapeutic repertoire.

This text examines every aspect of the disorder in an up-to-date, rigorous, and clinically oriented manner. The editors address the disease in a systematic, accessible way, identifying the challenges of diagnosis and treatment.

This guide is both compatible with the DSM-5 Section III Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and elaborates on it, offering clinicians at all levels of experience an accessible framework to guide evaluation and treatment of personality disorders.

This updated, second edition also features ways to employ CBT to reduce suicide risk and tips on integrating therapies related to CBT -- including dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and well-being therapy.

This is not a general text, then, but one focused on building competence and confidence in trauma-centered interventions, providing methods that should be readily and widely applicable to clinical practice.

By summarizing the empirical studies, proposing a universal language of defense mechanisms, and demonstrating how various assessment methods can be used in diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment, Dr. Vaillant and an interdisciplinary group of contributors provide the groundwork for clinical practice as well as future research in the field.

This practical and insightful guide distills into one volume CBT techniques for individual therapy and video demonstrations on DVD that illustrate how these techniques can be used to tackle a wide range of severe clinical problems.

This book offers practical guidance for assessing the amenability of patients to psychotherapy. By focusing on which patients are likely to respond well to therapeutic intervention and which will prove most resistive, the book can assist clinicians in determining with what kinds of patients will most likely succeed.

This third edition has been updated to account for the development of new techniques in brain imaging; improvement in electrophysiological methods to better detect epilepsy and sleep disorders; and a growing list of blood and spinal fluid biomarkers that have revolutionized diagnostic capability.

This book aims to construct a translational framework for recognizing and addressing loneliness in the clinical context. This guide presents the theoretical foundations; discusses the epidemiology throughout the life cycle; examines specific populations; analyzes the psychosocial and biological mechanisms; and describes interventions.

By breaking measurement-based care down into steps that are easy to both understand and implement, the book underscores not only the benefit to patients - strengthening the therapeutic alliance, reinforcing patient progress, and improving clinical outcomes - but also its potential advantages at the practice level.

Updated for the first time since 2012, this volume reflects advances not only in psychotherapy itself - the latest empirical data, as well as our increased understanding of the interface between brain and mind - but also in the culture at large.

An indispensable resource for psychiatric clinicians and trainees charged with assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental disorders in older adults, as well as the nurses and other professionals who provide critically important care day to day.

Designed for interviewers of all experience levels, the book is the clinician's companion for using DSM-5-TR in diagnostic interviews. The Pocket Guide addresses the goals of the interview, provides an efficient structure for learning how to conduct one, and explains the ways in which DSM-5-TR impacts the interview.

The Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5-TR is a concise, affordable companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-5-TR. It includes the fully revised diagnostic classification, as well as all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-5-TR in an easy-to-use format.

This handy DSM-5-TR Classification provides a ready reference to the DSM-5-TR classification of disorders, as well as the DSM-5 listings of ICD-10-CM codes for all DSM-5-TR diagnoses.

With the changing healthcare environment, 60 per cent of patients the are identified and receive treatment in the primary care setting. This handbook is a resource for primary care physicians needing to screen and treat patients with mental disorders.

What if how medication was prescribed was as important as what was prescribed? This is the central tenet of Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology, a new guide that emphasizes integrating research on evidence-based prescribing processes with psychodynamic insights and skills to enhance and optimize treatment outcomes with difficult-to-treat patients.

Unrivaled in its thoroughness, this volume discusses issues of assessment and evaluation; examines the etiology of ASD and its recognized associations with other medical conditions; analyzes standard and experimental treatments; and delves into social policy issues pertinent to individuals with ASD and those who treat them.

Precision psychiatry, as outlined in this groundbreaking book, presents a new path forward. By integrating findings from basic and clinical neuroscience, clinical practice, and population-level data, the field seeks to develop therapeutic approaches tailored for specific individuals with a specific constellation of health issues, characteristics, strengths, and symptoms.

In this new, thought-provoking volume, more than two dozen experts make the case for an ongoing alliance between psychopharmacotherapists, young patients, and their families.

This updated third edition of Dulcan's Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry reinforces its status as an indispensable resource for clinicians working with young patients and their families, providing the in-depth, DSM-5-aligned evidence-based clinical guidance readers have come to expect.

This is a systematic, eloquent, and exhaustive examination of the etiology, psychopathology, neurobiology, and treatment of the disorder, which was reclassified for DSM-5. The second edition has been thoroughly restructured and is designed to prepare clinicians to diagnose, treat, and-most important of all-understand their patients with the disorder.

This manual demystifies borderline personality disorder in young people by using the principles of good psychiatric management (GPM) to offer clinicians essential guidelines for generalist care. The authors outline common problems that arise during each phase or aspect of treatment, from diagnosis and pharmacology to family interventions, and discuss how to address them.

An interactive, case-oriented approach to mental health ethics, Professionalism and Ethics: Q & A Self-Study Guide for Mental Health Professionals consists of questions and answers that draw on sixteen experts' personal experience in the care of people with mental illness, in mental health research, and in clinical training.