Description

Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults: Clinical Features, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Guidelines provides clinicians and researchers with a comprehensive foundation for the assessment and treatment of adult separation anxiety. With insights on both psychological and pharmacological treatment implications, the book also covers key issues regarding the development and maintenance of separation anxiety, including physiological and evolutionary substrates of attachment and its biological correlates with separation anxiety. Life events and triggers to heightened separation anxiety in adults, as well as clinical indicators are also explored. Clinical review questionnaire measures and structured interview schedules round out this comprehensive resource.

Educates clinicians and researchers on the diagnosis, assessment, management and treatment of adult separation anxiety
Covers differences in treatment approaches for adults, children and adolescents
Discusses the phenomenology of adult separation anxiety
Provides improved frameworks to conceptualize patients' psychological problems and behaviors
Includes clinical review questionnaire measures and structured interview schedules
Describes the effects of secondary conditioning