Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Psychotherapy and Assessment Strategies

Bruce Carruth, Gary G Forrest

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317822738
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psicología
• Subtopic: Salud mental en psicología

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop effective psychotherapy and treatment strategies. From its helpful pages that contain diagnostic criteria and clinical interviewing and assessment guidelines, you learn to accurately diagnose substance use and antisocial personality disorders. The book also provides you with the historical and clinical perspectives of such disorders and their epidemiology and etiology to give you a thorough background and understanding of the subject. Case studies and therapy vignettes are included to provide you with actual clinical examples to illustrate concepts and ideas. You will appreciate the book's in-depth discussions of treatment strategies that can greatly enhance your effectiveness. You'll find this volume is an invaluable research resource for refreshing your approaches for helping persons with substance abuse and antisocial personality disorders. Much of the content of Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder is based on the author's two decades of experience working with patients suffering from substance use and antisocial personality disorders. Some topics addressed include:

• accurate differential diagnosis
• resistance
• the use of structure in treatment
• therapist-patient relationship dynamics
• treatment outcome effectiveness, relapse, and recovery. Alcohol/drug counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and corrections, probation, and parole officers who want to be more effective in their work with chemically dependent and antisocial clients will find this a practical, helpful, and informative guide.This enlightening book examines many of the most difficult and clinically problematic issues that are associated with the psychotherapy and rehabilitation of chemically dependent and/or antisocial patients. Much of the content of Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder is based on the author's two decades of experience working with patients suffering from substance use and antisocial personality disorders. Some topics addressed include accurate differential diagnosis, resistance, the use of structure in treatment, therapist-patient relationship dynamics, and treatment outcome effectiveness, relapse, and recovery. Alcohol/drug counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and corrections, probation, and parole officers who want to be more effective in their work with chemically dependent and antisocial clients will find this a practical, helpful, and informative guide.

Index

AA. See Alcoholics Anonymous

Abstinence

dangerous patient, 280,282

in differential diagnosis, 120–121, 128, 135

dual diagnosis, 121

treatment

chemical dependency, 173–174

chemical dependency vs. substance abuse, 156–158

importance of, 253

lifelong commitment, 165–166

recovery, 312–313

Acting-out, self-regulation techniques, 179

Addiction. See Chemical dependency

Adjustment style, interpersonal

antisocial personality disorder, 113

chemical dependency, 245–246, 317

chemical dependency and impulse control problems, 179–181

criminals, 210

dual diagnosis, 151

countertransference, 250–251

relapse, 310

Adolescents. See Teenagers

Adoptee studies

alcohol abuse, 31–32, 59

alcohol abuse vs. antisocial personality disorder, 75

antisocial personality disorder, 39–40, 71

Affective style

antisocial personality disorder, 113,124–125

chemical dependency, 6,51–52, 212

substance use disorders, 125

African Americans. See Blacks

Age

alcohol abuse, DSM III-R, 105–106

antisocial personality disorder

diagnosis, 115

onset of behaviors, 116

functional psychopaths, 114

Aggression. See also Dangerous patients

alcohol intoxication, 271

antisocial personality disorder, 124

patients toward therapists, 257

relapses, 165–166

Alcohol, DSM III classification, 16

Alcohol abuse and dependence. See also Substance use disorders

vs. antisocial personality disorder

co-occurrence, 41,42

etiology, 77–78

genetic-familial factors, 71, 74–75

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• About the Author
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Section One: Epidemiology, Etiology, and Differential Diagnosis
• Section Two: Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation
• Bibliography
• Index