The Dysregulated Adult

Integrated Treatment Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-12-385011-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 518 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1070 g

Reihe: Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional

People experiencing disorders in regulation are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm life style. They are impulsive, easily frustrated, and as a result make decisions that lead to an overwrought state-or who conversely retreat entirely from the world. This disorder is most likely to accompany diagnoses of bipolar or mood disorder, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Asperger's syndrome, eating or sleep disorders, and/or attention deficit disorder. This book instructs therapists how best to treat the dysregulated adult, providing diagnostic checklists, and a chapter by chapter inventory in approaching treatment of dysregulation in a variety of life skills.

Zielgruppe

Practicing clinical psychologists, therapists, and counselors

Autoren/Hrsg.

Degangi, Georgia A

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Problems of self-regulation in adults
II. Mood disregulation: Strategies for angry, agitated, and explosive people
III. Anxiety Disorders: How to calm the anxiety cycle and build self-confidence
IV. Dealing with depression
V. Eating disorders
VI. Sleep disorders
VII. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: How to build flexibility and budge compulsive thinking
VIII. Attentional problems in adults
IX. The sensory defensive adult: when the world is too bright, noisy, and too close for comfort:
X. Addressing attachment and problems of intimacy: How to build healthy emotional connections
Skill sheets: (Appendix)

Über Autor(innen)

Degangi, Georgia A
Georgia DeGangi, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, is a clinical psychologist and an occupational therapist. She currently works in private practice at ITS (Integrated Therapy Services) for Children and Families, Inc., in Kensington, Maryland, and has worked at the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Children in Rockville, Maryland, as the Director of Research for the past ten years. She has over 25 years' experience working with infants, children and their families. She has extensive experience with diagnosis and treatment of a range of developmental, sensory, behavioral, and emotional problems. Dr. DeGangi has conducted research for many years to examine the most effective ways of treating children as well as examining how problems in infancy related to self-regulation, sensory processing, attention, and social interactions develop as children grow older. Among her publications are the <i>Test of Sensory Functions in Infants, the Infant/Toddler Symptom Checklist</i>, and the <i>Test of Attention in Infants</i>. Dr. DeGangi is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the assessment and treatment of sensory processing, attention, and interactional problems in infants and children. She was the 1992 recipient of the A. Jean Ayres award from the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and has been distinguished in the roster of fellows of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She serves on the faculty at the Infant/Child Mental Health program of the Washington School of Psychiatry and is associate editor of the Journal of Learning and Developmental Disorders.