Relational Processes and DSM-V: Neuroscience, Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment
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The chapters in this book counter the perspective that we can safely discard the biopsychosocial model that has guided psychiatry in the past. The contributors examine the relevance of close relationships in such issues as the basic psychopathology of mental disorders, factors influencing maintenance and relapse, sources of burden for family members, and guiding family-based interventions. By tying relational processes to basic research on psychopathology, they demonstrate the value of integrating basic behavioral and brain research with a sophisticated understanding of the self-organizing and self-sustaining characteristics of relationships. Coverage includes: research linking relational processes to neuroscience, neurobiology, health outcomes, intervention research, prevention research, and genetics consideration of specific circumstances, such as promoting healthy parenting following divorce and relational processes in depressed Latino adolescents optimal approaches to the assessment of relational processes with clinical significance, such as child abuse, partner abuse, and expressed emotion. a simple introduction to the methodology of taxometrics, offering insight into whether key relational processes are distinct categories or continuously distributed variables an overview of the links between relational processes and psychiatric outcomes, providing a theoretical foundation for the discussion of links to psychopathology
Together, these contributions seek to develop a shared commitment among clinicians, researchers, and psychopathologists to take seriously the issue of relational processes as they relate to diagnoses within DSM-and to encourage mental health care workers at all levels to harness the generative and healing properties of intimate relationships and make them a focus of clinical practice. It is a book that will prove useful to all who are interested in integrating greater sensitivity to relational processes in their work.
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Steven R. H. Beach, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for Behavioral Research at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
Marianne Z. Wamboldt, M.D., is Vice Chair for Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at The Children's Hospital of Denver in Denver, Colorado.
Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., is Professor and Chief Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine/Grady Health System in Atlanta, Georgia.
Richard E. Heyman, Ph.D., is Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York.
Michael B. First, M.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, in New York, New York.
Lynn G. Underwood, Ph.D., is Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature, Medicine and the Health Care Professions at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
David Reiss, M.D., is Vivian Gill Distinguished Professor of Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
