Main description:

The first book to present DSM-5 diagnoses within a systems context

The first text to present DSM-5 diagnoses within a relational perspective, DSM-5 and Family Systems delivers timely content aimed at training marriage and family therapists, clinical mental health counselors, and other systems-oriented practitioners. It reflects how the DSM-5 examines, for the first time, its diagnostic categories from the perspective of cultural and environmental impact on the development of individual disorders and conditions. This comprehensive text provides students with an understanding of how to approach a diagnosis as it relates to assessments, treatment planning, and ethical implications from a family and relational systems perspective.

With contributions from distinguished faculty at counseling and marriage and family therapy training programs, each chapter includes an overview of the DSM in family systems contexts, cultural aspects, family systems assessments and interventions, and ethical and legal implications. Abundant case vignettes aid students in conceptualizing diagnoses in each DSM-5 category.

Key Features:

Considers all categories of DSM-5 diagnoses from a family and relational systems perspective-the first book to do so
Includes family systems contexts, assessments, interventions, cultural considerations, and ethical and legal implications
Provides sample case vignettes for conceptualization of each DSM-5 category
Written and edited by esteemed educators in counseling and MFT
Designed for courses in diagnosis, assessment, and psychopathology

Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1:Systemic Levels in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 2:Systems-Focused Therapy with Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorder
Chapter 3:Relational Functioning: Understanding Bipolar and Related Disorders
Chapter 4:Family Process in Depressive Disorders
Chapter 5:Applying Systems to Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 6:Systemic Functioning of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
Chapter 7:Trauma- and Stressor Related Disorders: Systemic Processes
Chapter 8:Dissociative Disorders from a Systems Perspective
Chapter 9:Systemic Ecology in Understanding Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Chapter 10:Feeding and Eating Disorders-A Systemic Model
Chapter 11:Elimination Disorder: A Developmental Systems Perspective
Chapter 12: Multi-Systemic Dimensions of Sleep-Wake Disorders
Chapter 13:Sexual Dysfunctions- A Relational Understanding
Chapter 14:Gender Dysphoria and Systemic Meaning
Chapter 15:Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders: General Systemic Properties
Chapter 16:Family Systems and Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Chapter 17:Neurocognitive Disorders: Systemic Functionality and Interconnectedness
Chapter 18:Personality Disorders and Interconnectedness
Chapter 19:Systems-Focused Therapy with Paraphilic Disorders