Bookedited by Irismar Reis de Oliveira, Thomas Schwartz and Stephen M. Stahl.
Summary: "Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Introduction
Integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology: outcomes, endophenotypes, and theoretical underpinnings regarding effectiveness
Trial-based cognitive therapy (TBCT): a new cognitive-behavior therapy approach
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in mood disorders: major depression
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in mood disorders: bipolar disorder
Integrating psychopharmacology and cognitive remediation to treat cognitive dysfunction in the psychotic disorders
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in anxiety disorders
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in eating disorders
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy to treat children with ADHD
Integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in insomnia
Integrating psychotherapy and medication for addicted patients
Integrating pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy in perinatal distress
Integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in sexual disorders
Integrating psychopharmacology and computer-based psychotherapy
A delicate balance: the contribution of psychosocial factors to biological treatments of mental disorders.