PSYCHOTHERAPY OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS

Description

"PSYCHOTHERAPY OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS" is a practical guide to special psychotherapy, in fact, of several varieties of mental disorders in the field of behavior in a broad sense: actual behavioral disorders (actions and deeds), tics, eating disorders, excretion disorders, and sleep disorders.

A total of fifteen topics (clinical cases) are considered.
The first seven are on the psychotherapy of behavioral disorders of a more general kind and the psychotherapy of various tics, the next three are on the psychotherapy of eating disorders, the other two parts present problems of enuresis (wetting) and encopresis, and the last three are devoted to the psychotherapy of problems and disorders in the field of sleep - insomnia, nightmares and somnambulism.

For any mental suffering, disorder or problem its characteristic features, its course, its prevalence, the reasons for its occurrence and development, its dynamics, its possible consequences and its treatment are considered.

The book "PSYCHOTHERAPY OF BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS" offers the most appropriate modern methods and tools for psychocorrection and psychotherapy of the disorders under consideration.

 

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CONTENTS

General presentation and clarifications... 5

I. Impulse control disorder… 9

II. Abnormal behavior (deviations and torts)... 18

III. Oppositional Defiant Disorder… 27

IV. Coprolalia (swearing, talking dirty)… 32

V. Propensity to lie and cheat... 39

VI. Aggressive behavior... 51

VII. Tics… 68

VIII. Anorexia… 76

IX. Bulimia… 89

H. Orthorexia… 100

XI. Enuresis… 109

XII. Encopresis… 121

XIII. Insomnia (asomnia)… 130

XIV. Night terrors and nightmares... 145

XV. Somnambulism (sleepwalking)… 154

Appendix 1. – Tests for diagnosis of abnormal behavior... 160

Appendix 2. - Asinger's test for assessing aggressiveness... 161

Appendix 3. - Survey for establishing eating disorders... 166

Appendix 4. - Questionnaire for establishing orthorexia... 168

Appendix 5. – Sleepiness rating scale... 170

Appendix 6. – Program of Hoenberger and Schindler... 171

Literature… 173