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Encyclopedia of Mental Health. Edition No. 3

  • Book

  • June 2023
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 5755543

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles� 2024 in Psychology, Clinical** Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Third Edition, Four Volume Set brings together emerging trends and discoveries to paint a picture of mental health in the context of overall health and well-being. This new edition comprises 260 comprehensive chapters on topics like depression, schizophrenia, mood disorders, suicide, personality disorders, dementia, panic attacks, paranoia, somatization, conduct disorder, dissociative disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, phobias, divorce, PTSD, burn-out, grief, as well as up-and-coming research findings on mental health topics in the wake of COVID-19. The book also includes therapies such as cognitive therapy, behaviorist, psychoanalytic, constructivist, exposure therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, narrative therapies, biofeedback, and more.

Moreover, the encyclopedia explores links to behavioral medicine, health psychology and other aspects of physical health. Coverage of the validity of psychiatric diagnosis is also included, as are the positive aspects of mental health, including forgiveness, gratitude, happiness, hope, empathy, humor, awe, self-healing personalities, heroism, altruism, and growth.

Table of Contents

Topics included in this third edition are:
Adolescence
Aggression
Aging and Mental Health
Alcohol Problems
Anger
Anxiety
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Behavioral Genetics
Behavior Therapy
Bereavement
Body Image
Body Rhythms/Body Clocks
Borderline Personality Disorder
Brain Development and Plasticity
Coping
Cognitive Development
Chronic Illness and Mental Health
Depression
Dying
Emotional intelligence
Food, nutrition and mental health
Guilt and shame
Humor and mental health
Moral development
Obesity
Personality Assessment
Personality Disorders
Psychotherapy
Positive psychology
Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health
Resilience
Schizophrenia
Self-esteem
Sexual Disorders and Dysfunction
Smoking and nicotine
Suicide
Sport and mental health

... and many more