Long overdue, Positive Psychiatry provides a rigorous and clinically useful guide to the growing body of research that strongly suggests that positive psychosocial factors such as resilience, optimism, and social engagement are associated with better outcomes, including lower morbidity, greater longevity, and a heightened sense of patient well-being. Because most of the research has been conducted outside of the field of psychiatry, it has had relatively little influence on everyday clinical practice. This volume, written and edited by luminaries in the field, hopes to remedy this situation by introducing clinicians to the guiding principles of positive psychiatry, which hold that mental health cannot be defined as the mere reduction or even elimination of mental illness, and that mental health professionals must focus on more than simply controlling the symptoms of illness.
To that end, the book, while biologically grounded and exhaustively referenced, is also structured and written to be accessible. It includes many useful features: Bulleted outlines of key clinical points are included where appropriate, fostering direct application of positive psychiatry constructs, measures, interventions, and outcomes into clinical practice and training. An abundance of interesting and compelling clinical vignettes illustrate how to incorporate positive psychiatry techniques and treatment strategies into practice. Comprehensive coverage makes this volume the ‘go-to’ resource for researchers and clinicians seeking an overview and details of what positive psychiatry is, why it is needed, and how to integrate it into research, practice, and training. The roster of contributors is a ‘who’s who’ in the field of positive mental health, rendering this the definitive source of information on positive psychiatry.
Chief among the book’s strengths is its emphasis on empirically grounded applications, and the editors have ensured that limitations in the available evidence base are identified, as well as directions for further research. Positive Psychiatry fills a critical gap in the treatment literature, and researchers, clinicians, and trainees in psychiatry and allied mental health fields will welcome its publication.
Table des matières
Contributors Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: What Is Positive Psychiatry?Part I: Positive Psychosocial Factors Chapter 2. Positive Psychological Traits Chapter 3. Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth Chapter 4. Positive Social Psychiatry Part II: Positive Outcomes Chapter 5. Recovery in Mental Illnesses Chapter 6. What Is Well-Being?Chapter 7. Clinical Assessments of Positive Mental Health Part III: Interventions in Positive Psychiatry Chapter 8. Positive Psychotherapeutic and Behavioral Interventions Chapter 9. Positivity in Supportive and Psychodynamic Therapy Chapter 10. Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine Interventions Chapter 11. Preventive Interventions Chapter 12. Integrating Positive Psychiatry Into Clinical Practice Part IV: Special Topics in Positive Psychiatry Chapter 13. Biology of Positive Psychiatry Chapter 14. Positive Child Psychiatry Chapter 15. Positive Geriatric and Cultural Psychiatry Chapter 16. Bioethics of Positive Psychiatry Index
A propos de l’auteur
Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., is Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care; Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging; Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging; and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.Barton W. Palmer, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California.Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
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