The Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology
An Evidence Based Practice Approach
Alan Carr, Muireann McNulty, Alan Carr, Muireann McNulty
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The Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology
An Evidence Based Practice Approach
Alan Carr, Muireann McNulty, Alan Carr, Muireann McNulty
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The second edition of the Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology: An Evidence Based Practice Approach like its predecessor provides clinical psychologists in training with a comprehensive practice handbook to help build the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of adult mental health. While practical in orientation, the book is based solidly on empirical evidence.Building on the success of the previous edition this handbook has been extensively revised in a number of ways. Throughout the book, the text, references, and website addresses and have been updated to reflect important developments since the publication the first edition. Recent research findings on the epidemiology, aetiology, course, outcome, assessment and treatment of all psychological problems considered in this volume have been incorporated into the text. Account has been taken of changes in the diagnosis and classification of psychological problems reflected in the DSM-5. Chapters on ADHD in adults, emotion focused therapy, radically open dialectical behaviour therapy, and schema therapy have been added.
The book is divided into 6 sections:
Section 1 covers conceptual frameworks for practice (lifespan development; classification and epidemiology; CBT, psychodynamic, emotion focused, systemic and bio-medical models; and general assessment procedures)
Section 2 deals with mood problems (depression, bipolar disorder, suicide risk, and anger management)
Section 3 focuses on anxiety problems (social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and depersonalization disorder)
Section 4 deals with psychological problems linked to physical health (health anxiety, somatization, chronic pain, adjustment to cancer, and eating disorders)
Section 5 focuses on other significant psychological problems that come to the attention of clinical psychologist in adult mental health services (ADHD in adults, alcohol and other drug problems, psychosis, and psychological problems in older adults)
Section 6 contains chapters on therapeutic approaches to psychological distress related to complex childhood trauma (dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder, racially open dialectical behaviour for over-controlled presentations, and schema therapy).
Each of the chapters on clinical problems explains how to assess and treat the condition in an evidence-based way with reference to case material. Interventions from cognitive-behavioural, psychodynamic, interpersonal/systemic and biomedical approaches are described, where there is evidence that they are effective for the problem in question. Skill building exercises and further reading for psychologists and patients are included at the end of each chapter.
This book is one of a set of three volumes which cover the lion's share of the curriculum for clinical psychologists in training in the UK and Ireland. The other two volumes are the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, Third Edition (by Alan Carr) and the Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice, Second Edition edited by Alan Carr, Christine Linehan, Gary O'Reilly, Patricia Noonan Walsh, & John McEvoy).
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Section 1
Conceptual frameworks
Chapter 1
Normal psychological development in adulthood
Family lifecycle
Leaving home
Forming a couple
Stage | Emotional transition processes | Tasks essential for developmental progression |
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Leaving home | Developing emotional and financial autonomy | Differentiating from family of origin and developing adult-to-adult relationship with parents Developing intimate peer relationships Beginning a career and moving towards financial independence Establishing the self in community and society |
Forming a couple | Committing to a long-term relationship | Selecting a partner and deciding to form a long-term relationship Developing a way to live together based on reality rather than mutual projection Realigning couple’s relationships with families of origin and peers to include partners |
Families with young children | Accepting new children into the family system | Adjusting couple system to make space for children Arranging child-rearing, financial and housekeeping responsibilities within the couple Realigning relationships with families of origin to include parenting and grandparenting roles Realigning family relationships with community and society to accommodate new family structure |
Families with adolescents | Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to accommodate adolescents’ growing independence and grandparents’ increasing constraints | Adjusting parent–child relationships to allow adolescents more autonomy Adjusting family relationships as couple takes on responsibility of caring for aging parents Realigning family relationships with community and society to accommodate adolescents’ increasing autonomy and grandparents’ increasing constraints |
Launching children and moving into midlife | Accepting many exits from and entries into the family system | Adjusting to living as a couple again Addressing couple’s midlife issues and possibilities of new interests and projects Negotiating adult-to-adult relationships between parents and grown children Adjusting to include in-laws and grandchildren within the family circle Dealing with disabilities and death of couple’s aging parents Realigning family relationships with community and society to accommodate new family structure and relationships |
Families with parents in late middle age | Accepting new generational roles | Maintaining couple’s functioning and interests, and exploring new family and social roles while coping with physiological decline Adjusting to children taking a more central role in family maintenance Making room for the wisdom and experience of the aging couple Supporting the older generation to live as independently as possible within the constraints of aging Realigning family relationships with community and society to accommodate new family structure and relationships |
Families with parents nearing the end of life | Accepting the constraints of aging and the reality of death | Dealing with loss of partner, siblings and peers Preparing for death through life review and integration Adjusting to reversal of roles where children care for parents Realigning family relationships with community and society to accommodate changing family relationships |
Marital satisfaction
- High level of education
- High socio-economic status
- Similarity of spouses’ interests, intelligence and personality
- Early or late stage of family lifecycle
- Sexual compatibility
- For women, later marriage.
Marital interaction
- Respect
- Acceptance
- Commitment
- Spirituality
- Dispositional attributions for positive behaviour
- More positive than negative interactions
- Focusing conflicts on specific issues
- Rapidly repairing relationship ruptures and forgiving transgressions
- Managing differing male and female conversational styles
- Addressing needs for intimacy and power
- Emotional intelligence, emotional stability and agreeableness.