This guide to the prescriptive selection of psychosocial interventions is founded on a research-based model that sequentially considers patient dimensions, environments, settings, therapists, and therapies. Topics covered include: the development of a prescriptive decision model, and patient predisposing variables.

Using actual case material from the psychiatric hospital setting, the principal setting in which psychological assessments are conducted, this volume shows how psychological assessment contributes to the clarification of diagnostic issues and the development of an optimal treatment plan. Beginning with disorders usually first evident in infancy, childhood, or adolescence and ending with the Axis II personality disorders, the book presents an array of case material to reflect the range of DSM-III-R categories. Few changes have been made in the original test materials provided or in the...

Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this title brings together in one volume the most important current perspectives on personality pathology. Chapters from leading experts have been extensively rewritten to reflect a decade's worth of significant theoretical, empirical, and clinical developments, and two entirely new chapters have been added.