Evidence-Based Treatment of Personality Dysfunction: Principles, Methods, and Processes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433807475 ISBN 13: 9781433807473

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2010

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of the most up-to-date research on personality disorder treatment written by leading scholars of psychopathology and psychotherapy.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey J. Magnavita, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist who has been in clinical practice for close to 30 years. He served as an adjunct professor in clinical psychology at the University of Hartford, where he taught and supervised doctoral students.
 
Dr. Magnavita has received awards for his work in science and practice. In 2006, he received the American Psychological Association's (APA's) Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent or Institutional Practice in the Private Sector for his work developing a theoretical framework for unified clinical science called personality systematics.
 
He is the founder of the Unified Psychotherapy Project, whose mission is to catalogue the methods and techniques of unified psychotherapy.
 
Dr. Magnavita has been featured in two APA videotapes demonstrating personality-guided therapy using a unified approach. He has published extensively and has authored Restructuring Personality Disorders: A Short-Term Dynamic Approach (1997), Relational Therapy for Personality Disorders (2000), Personality-Guided Relational Therapy: A Unified Approach (2005), and a textbook, Theories of Personality: Contemporary Approaches to the Science of Personality (2002). He also was the volume editor of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol. 1. Psychodynamic/Object Relations (2002) and the Handbook of Personality Disorders: Theory and Practice (2004). He serves on the editorial board of a number of leading publications and has been a guest editor of a number of special editions of journals.
 
He was elected to serve as the president of APA's Division of Psychotherapy in 2010 and has presented his work at various conferences and symposiums. He runs ongoing seminars in psychotherapy using videotape recordings as the vehicle for examining the process and technical aspects of treatment.
 
Dr. Magnavita lives in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, with his wife Anne and three daughters, Elizabeth, Emily, and Caroline.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1433807475
• ISBN 13: 9781433807473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 322
• Editor: Magnavita PhD Dr. Jeffrey J.