Author: Sophia F. Dziegielewski
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Includes specific applications of diagnostic and psychotherapeutic considerations for the spectrum of disorders included in the DSMTM.
* Uses a "person-in-environment" context unique among books about the DSM-IV-TRTM.
* Written by a professor who has taught thousands of students and clinicians across the country the basics of DSMTM in preparation for the licensing exam.
- File Size: 7187 KB
- Print Length: 448 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 21, 2002)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000W9CMNW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,627 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
wow! i never thought i'd live to see the day that i read what boils down to a text book with delight. dziegielewski is straight forward, to the point and plain speaking. this book has been the most helpful of mental health diagnosis aids for practicum students at the agency i work for. it truly ought to be a required text for grad students going into the mental health delivery business! lots of little prompts and reminders throughout the text make it an easy read!By setaglm
Sophia D. (along with Heather Forbes) includes a chapter on "Reactive Attachment Disorder" (RAD), but gives the disorder a different definition than is found in the DSM-IV-TR. The authors rather give RAD the definition used by a fringe group of practitioners -- "Attachment (Holding) Therapists" -- which is a catch-all laundry list of signs that would label ANY child as RAD. If this isn't bad enough, the authors then prescribe Holding Therapy, an unvalidated practice denounced as abusive (see the journal *Child Maltreatment* Feb 2006) by APSAC and the APA's Division on Child Maltreatment. Holding Therapy uses hours of coercive restraint and other aversives to mold adoptees into unquestioningly obedient little Stepford Children.By Reviewer
The second edition of this book (2010) excises the chapter on RAD, but has other problems, such as the endorsement of EMDR.

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