Main description:

This volume comprehensively compares and contrasts alternative models of and treatment approaches to clinical depression. Each contributor, a recognized expert in their modality, analyzes the same case and provides: an overview of the treatment model; empirical evidence for both the model and treatment derived from it; and, treatment strategies and interventions, including termination issues, relapse prevention, and recommendations for follow-up care. Among the 12 approaches presented are Object Relations, Cognitive Therapies, Schema-Focused, Couple and Family, Integrative Psychotherapy as well as Psychopharmacology. A significant contribution to this volume is the chapter on cultural considerations for understanding, assessing and treating depression.

Contents:

Contributors, Foreword, William McKinney, Acknowledgments; 1. Alternative treatments of depression: Points of convergence and divergence, Mark A. Reinecke; 2. Treatments of depression: What the research says, Michael J. Lambert, Matthew J. Davis; 3. Cultural considerations for understanding, assessing and treating depressive experience and disorder, Anthony J. Marsella, Aaron Kaplan, Edward Suarez; 4. The Case of Nancy, Mark A. Reinecke, Bertram Cohler, Michael R. Davison; 5. Individual Psychology, Mark H. Stone; 6. Object Relations Approach, Frank Summers; 7. A Self-Psychology Approach, Robert M. Galatzer-Levy; 8. Supportive-Expressive Psychodynamic Therapy, Paul Crits-Christoph, David Mark, Mary Beth Connolly (continued); 9. Behavioral Therapy, E. Thomas Dowd.