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People experiencing disorders in regulation are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm life style. They are impulsive, easily frustrated, and as a result make decisions that lead to an overwrought state-or who...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; Waltham, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Practical resources for the mental health professional
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123850119 |
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People experiencing disorders in regulation are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm life style. They are impulsive, easily frustrated, and as a result make decisions that lead to an overwrought state-or who conversely retreat entirely from the world. This disorder is most likely to accompany diagnoses of bipolar or mood disorder, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Asperger's syndrome, eating or sleep disorders, and/or attention deficit disorder. This book instructs therapists how best to treat the dysregulated adult, providing diagnostic checklists, and a chapter by chapter inventory in approaching treatment of dysregulation in a variety of life skills. Informs the therapist how dysregulaion relates to multiple disorders Includes clinical observations and case studies Gives therapist tools and techniques for the client to understand his behavior, reframe problems in a positive way, and take responsibility for behavior change Encompasses sensory integration therapy and mind-body techniques for the therapist to guide client toward self-calming Emphasis on effective relational dynamics between the client and significant people in his/her life Separate chapters on how to treat dysregulation effects on multiple behaviors including mood regulation, behavioral control, inattention, sleep, feeding, and social interactions. |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 504 pages). |
| ISBN: |
9780123850119 0123850118 |
| Index Number: | RC537 |
| CLC: | R749.4 |
| Contents: | I. Problems of self-regulation in adults -- II. Mood disregulation: Strategies for angry, agitated, and explosive people -- III. Anxiety Disorders: How to calm the anxiety cycle and build self-confidence -- IV. Dealing with depression -- V. Eating disorders -- VI. Sleep disorders -- VII. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: How to build flexibility and budge compulsive thinking -- VIII. Attentional problems in adults -- IX. The sensory defensive adult: when the world is too bright, noisy, and too close for comfort: -- X. Addressing attachment and problems of intimacy: How to build healthy emotional connections -- Skill sheets: (Appendix). |