The Schizophrenia Spectrum (Advances in Psychotherapy Evidence-based Practice)

An essential reference for assessing and treating people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders – now updated and even more comprehensive. The new edition of this highly acclaimed volume provides a fully updated and comprehensive account of the psychopathology, clinical assessment, and treatment of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. It emphasizes functional assessment and modern psychological treatment and rehabilitation methods, which continue to be under-used despite overwhelming evidence that they improve outcomes. The compact and easy-to-read text provides both experienced practitioners and students with an evidencebased guide incorporating the major developments of the last decade: the new diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5, introducing the schizophrenia spectrum and neurodevelopmental disorders, the further evolution of recovery as central to treatment and rehabilitation, advances in understanding the psychopathology of schizophrenia, and the proliferation of psychological and psychosocial modalities for treatment and rehabilitation.

Will D. Spaulding, PhD, is a professor of psychology in the doctoral clinical psychology program of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His entire career has been devoted understanding and treating serious mental illness, from psychopathology to treatment outcome to mental health services policy and administration.For over 20 years he was the senior psychologist in a state hospital-based psychiatric rehabilitation program in Nebraska, and has consulted nationally and internationally on development of services for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Steven M. Silverstein, PhD, is Director of Research, and Director of the Division of Schizophrenia Research at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC), and Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is the former Chair of the APA’s Task Force on Serious Mental Illness, and the 2017 President of the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He has over 25 years of experience in treating people with serious mental illness, and has directed inpatient units and outpatient programs for this population.About the Authors Anthony A. Menditto, PhD, is the Director of Treatment Services at Fulton State Hospital in Missouri.He has spent the past 30 years as a clinician, administrator, researcher, and consultant dedicated to improving our understanding of serious mental disorders.His work has focused on the implementation and evaluation of evidence-based approaches to assessment and treatment for individuals with serious mental disorders.