Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults
Clinical Features, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Guidelines
- 1st Edition - March 12, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Vijaya Manicavasagar, Derrick Silove
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 5 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 5 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteSeparation Anxiety Disorder in Adults provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding the development, manifestation, and treatment of adult separation anxiety. The book explores precursors and triggers to both childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder, comorbidity with other disorders and conditions, and characteristics of populations and individuals with separation anxiety. Assessment and treatment are comprehensively covered, discussing how treatment for adults difers from that for children. Clinical review questionnaires are included for immediate use in practice.
- Reviews the diagnosis, assessment, management, and treatment of adult separation anxiety
- Covers how treatment for adults differs from that for children
- Identifies precursors and triggers to separation anxiety
- Discusses comorbidity with other disorders and conditions
- Includes clinical review questionnaire measures
Mental health clinicians and researchers; psychology students
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgements1. A journey of discovery: separation anxiety disorder in adults2. Making a diagnosis of separation anxiety3. The assessment of separation anxiety and separation anxiety disorder4. Characteristics of populations and individuals with adult separation anxiety disorder5. Adult separation anxiety and attachment theory6. Developmental models of separation anxiety disorder7. Exploring the continuity hypothesis of separation anxiety8. The biological foundations of separation anxiety9. Precursors and triggers to childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder10. Comorbidity with other disorders and conditions11. Implications for the treatment of adult separation anxiety disorder12. Issues and challenges associated with understanding adult separation anxiety disorderThe Separation Anxiety Symptom Inventory (SASI)ASA-27Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 12, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 236
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128125540
- eBook ISBN: 9780128125557
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Vijaya Manicavasagar
Vijaya Manicavasagar's work has focused on defining the diagnostic criteria for adult separation anxiety disorder and its overlap with other anxiety disorders including panic disorder and agoraphobia. She has recently run treatment studies for depression and bipolar disorder using innovative psychological interventions such as mindfulness meditation and wellbeing groups. Author of over 100 journal articles and 3 books.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Psychological Services and Psychology Clinic, Black Dog Institute. Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, AustraliaDS
Derrick Silove
Derek Silove is one of the first professors to be appointed in the early 1990s to the newly established UNSW Clinical School in Southwest Sydney, where he established the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, and the Centre for Population Mental Health Research. He contributes to clinical services by leading inpatient teams, establishing and overseeing anxiety and traumatic stress services, and providing clinical consultancy for complex cases to Refugee Detention Centers. Associate Editor of BMC Psychiatry. Author of over 290 journal articles and 3 books.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, AustraliaRead Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults on ScienceDirect