Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128138580 ISBN 13: 9780128138588

Publisher: Academic Press, 2019

Synopsis

Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Etiology, Assessment, and Treatment provides a complete overview on this disorder, focusing on its etiology, how the disorder presents, and the clinical assessment and treatment methods currently available. The book presents the history of the disorder, discusses the rationale for its inclusion in the DSM, and includes diagnostic considerations, comorbidity, epidemiology, intervention, and how treatments have evolved. Each section is bolstered by clinical case material that provides real-world context and clinical lessons on how to distinguish intermittent explosive disorder from other presentations of aggression.

• Synthesizes the current knowledge on the etiology, assessment and treatment of intermittent explosive disorder
• Covers epidemiology and future directions
• Discusses cross-cultural differences in anger expression and how this impacts diagnosis
• Explores age-related and developmental considerations in diagnosis and expression
• Assesses pharmacological, psychosocial, and combined treatment therapies

About this title

About the Author

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago. Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago. Dr. Coccaro serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Azevan Pharmaceuticals, and also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, among them International Clinical Psychopharmacology, Journal of Personality Disorders, and Aggression and Violent Behavior. He has been the recipient of a number of research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author or co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as 175 abstracts and 40 book chapters.

Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology. His research examines the interplay of cognitive-affective, psychosocial, and biological processes involved in the development and maintenance of affect dysregulation, with an emphasis on self and other directed aggression. This includes the development of interventions to reduce aggression among individuals with severe aggressive problems including those with intermittent explosive disorder. He is the director of the Mechanisms of Affect Dysregulation Clinical Research Lab, the author of numerous chapters and articles, and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0128138580
• ISBN 13: 9780128138588
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Coccaro Emil F., McCloskey Michael S.