Practitioner's Guide to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders

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From pioneering scientist-practitioners, this book offers the first comprehensive guide to using the groundbreaking Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) in clinical practice.

From pioneering scientist-practitioners, this book offers the first comprehensive guide to using the groundbreaking Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) in clinical practice. The authors explain how the AMPD weaves together evidence-based assessment of personality functioning and traits to provide a dimensional understanding of the client's needs, strengths, and level of impairment. Vivid case examples illustrate applications in clinical assessment, client feedback, diagnosis, treatment planning, and personalized intervention. The book's final section describes ways to apply the AMPD with specific patterns of personality disorder and with other mental health issues, such as complex trauma and impulse-control problems.

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Preface
I. Understanding the Client’s Personality
1. How Can the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders Support Our Clinical Work?
2. Levels of Personality Functioning
3. Personality Traits
4. General Human Factors and Whole-Person-Assessment
II. Psychological Treatment Informed by the AMPD
5. Assessment and Reporting in Clinical Practice
6. Providing Feedback and Forming Alliance
7. Treatment planning, Psychotherapy, and Evaluation
III. Specific Clinical Applications of the AMPD
8. Application with Neurotic and Restrictive Patterns
9. Application with Dramatic and Negativistic Patterns
10. Application with Impulse-Control Problems and Addictions
11. Application with Psychopathy and Forensic Evaluation
12. Application with Other Persistent Mental Disorders
Conclusion
References
Index