Case Formulation for Personality Disorders

Case Formulation for Personality Disorders helps mental health clinicians start effective treatment programs for their patients on the right track. Tying together practice and theory, the book provides detailed clinical guidance on how to build treatment plan for patients suffering from various personality disorders. The book aids in both making sense of these complex disorders as well as developing tailored evidence-based interventions. The book takes an integrative approach to case formulation, looking at both biological and genetic factors in personality disorders and how they affect case formulation. Provides various methods of case formulation that are tailored to specific personality disorders Covers cultural factors that need to be considered when constructing case formulations Discusses the role of, and problems associated with, the diagnosis of personality disorders Looks at issues relating to the measurement of personality disorders Covers the development and origins of personality disorders.--