Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults
Clinical Features, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Guidelines

Contains essential insights on the assessment, management and treatment of adult separation anxiety

Vijaya Manicavasagar (Author), Derrick Silove (Author)

9780128125540, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 16 March 2020

236 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.39 kg

Separation 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.

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

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ]