Offers useful strategies for creating rapport between the linear-focused DSM-5-TR and the circular causality approach of systems-oriented clinicians


With a focus on clinical applications, this unique text for students of diagnosis, family systems, counseling, and other mental health disciplines demonstrates how to use the DSM-5-TR to aid assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and intervention from a relational perspective. With detailed descriptions, the second edition is updated to foster greater understanding of interpersonal problems associated with onset, progression, and expression of psychiatric systems while incorporating the specific parameters of parent, child, sibling, extended family, and significant other issues in overall clinical formulation.


The new edition delves more deeply into relational and cultural features, family systems assessment, family systems interventions, and ethical and legal implications when working with identified DSM-5-TR disorders. New case conceptualizations address the "new normal" of working in a telehealth environment along with the impact of COVID-19 and racial and social injustice. Every chapter encompasses the latest DSM updates and current literature, and new chapter Test Banks and PowerPoints enhance the instructor resources. With each chapter focusing on a specific diagnosis or category of diagnoses, the book analyzes all DSM-5-TR domains, discusses the impact of diagnoses on the entire family, and introduces various assessments and interventions. Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.


New to the Second Edition:





Presents relational and cultural features in each chapter

Updates case conceptualizations to address emerging trends in telehealth, COVID-19, and social injustice

Embodies the latest DSM updates, current literature, and updated research

New and updated chapter Test Banks and PowerPoints included in the instructor materials



Key Features:





Guides the reader in understanding how to best integrate DSM-5-TR diagnoses from a systems perspective

Applies systemic considerations to every identified disorder category in the DSM-5-TR

Considers ethical and legal implications for each diagnosis

Summary, case conceptualization, and discussion questions included in each chapter focusing on a disorder category

Includes family systems contexts, assessments, interventions, and cultural considerations