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Description

"Behavioral Addictions is a timely landmark achievement and a must read for anyone interested in addictive and compulsive behavior and its treatment. Rosenberg and Feder have brought us leading addiction experts, who clearly present the growing evidence for including behavioral addictions in the DSM-5 and how best to treat them. While gambling is the first to be included in the DSM-5 chapter on substance related disorders, other behavioral addictions are likely to follow as evidence grows. This is the most important new textbook in addiction psychiatry in recent years." - Richard Frances MD, Founding President, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry

 

DSM-V broke new ground in May of 2013, designating a new disorder called "behavioral addiction." Clinicians immediately wanted to know: how is a behavioral addiction different from an impulse control disorder? What are the criteria for determining that some behaviors are addictions rather than impulses? What, if anything, does this mean in terms of effective treatment?

 

Behavioral Addictions is the first and most authoritative text ever written on the subject of behavioral addictions. This comprehensive work explains the criteria used to determine addiction, the evidence for identifying assorted behaviors as addictions, and the evidence-based treatment for each.

 

With contributions from preeminent experts covering an exhaustive list of behavioral addictions, this book is unique in its coverage of behavioral addictions, their criteria, and treatment. It is a valuable and timely resource for any clinician treating addictions.

Key Features

  • A guide to understanding the new DSM-V designation of behavioral addiction
  • Defines the criteria for behavior to be considered an addiction designation
  • Discusses the evidence for behaviors meeting addiction criteria
  • Identifies what is now, likely will be, and is not a behavioral addiction per evidence
  • Discusses behaviors formerly considered impulse control disorders
  • Presents evidence-based treatment for each behavioral addiction

Readership

Clinical psychologists in research and practice, psychiatrists, medical doctors, nursing and medical students, and clinicians of all types including social workers.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Biography

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Behavioral Addictions

The History of Behavioral Addictions

Defining and Determining Criteria for a Behavioral Addiction

Theories and Evidence in Support of Behavioral Addictions

Guiding Principles for the Treatment of Behavioral Addictions

Societal and Legal Issues

Chapter 2. Behavioral Addiction: The Nexus of Impulsivity and Compulsivity

Introduction

Impulsivity and Compulsivity: What’s it All About?

How do Impulsivity and Compulsivity Relate?

From Impulsivity to Compulsivity in Substance Use Disorder

Behavioral Addiction: on the Border between Impulsivity and Compulsivity

Kleptomania Behavior

An ABC Model to Assess and Manage Compulsive-Impulsive Disorders

Conclusions

Chapter 3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Gambling Disorder

Introduction

Clinical Characteristics

Clinical Assessment

Screening/Diagnostic Instruments

Treatment Options

Psychotherapy

Pharmacotherapy

Conclusions

Chapter 4. Problematic Online Gaming

History and Typology of Online Games

Defining Problematic Online Gaming

Symptomatology and Consequences

Assessment

Epidemiology

Etiology

Prevention and Treatment

Chapter 5. Internet Addiction Disorder: Overview and Controversies

Introduction: Internet Addiction Disorder and its Treatment

Diagnosis and Clinical Criteria

Assessment of Internet Addiction

Prevalence Rates

Psychiatric Comorbidity

Relationship of Internet Addiction with Drug and Alcohol Use

The Phenomenology of Internet Addiction

Personality and Psychosocial Factors Associated with IAD

Cognitive Factors Associated with Problematic Internet Use

Details

No. of pages:
416
Language:
English
Copyright:
© 2014
Published:
Imprint:
Academic Press
eBook ISBN:
9780124078581
Print ISBN:
9780124077249
Print ISBN:
9780128100028

About the editors

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD

Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the Cornell University Medical Center - New York Presbyterian Hospital and a psychiatrist in private practice. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship at Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rosenberg is a contributing editor of the Journal of Sex Therapy, the author of scientific and lay articles, listed among the Best Doctors® in America and New York Magazine’s Best Doctors, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the recipient of medical and public service awards from the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Since medical school, Dr. Rosenberg has produced and directed films that have been aired on HBO and PBS affiliates and have been recognized by the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Museum of Natural History and numerous film festivals. He is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award. His films include An Alzheimer’s Story (coproducer/director, PBS affiliates 1985), Through Madness: The Subjective Experience of Psychosis (producer/director, PBS Affiliates, 1991) Why Am I Gay?: Stories of Coming Out in America, (producer/director, HBO, 1993) Back From Madness (producer/director, HBO.1996), Drinking Apart: Families Living Under the Influence, (producer/director/cinematographer, HBO, 2000) and Cancer (executive producer, HBO,2000) and in producing a current HBO-commissioned project on mental illness in America. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742255/

Affiliations and Expertise

Cornell University Medical Center, Psychiatry Department,New York, NY, USA and UpperEastHealth.com

Laura Curtiss Feder, PsyD

Laura Curtiss Feder, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist at Upper East Health. Her psychotherapy practice is geared toward working with adolescents and adults, particularly those who struggle with behavioral addictions and compulsions. Dr. Feder received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University and then went on for her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her doctoral training included working at several New York City hospitals, including Bellevue, Beth Israel and St. Luke’s Roosevelt as well as multiple local university counseling centers. Dr. Feder completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the William Alanson White Institute where she also continues to receive specialized training in working with eating disorders, compulsions and addictions. She has written and presented at professional conferences on the topics of substance abuse, psychological symptoms related to dermatological conditions, camp-based leadership programs and psychotherapy with artists.

Affiliations and Expertise

Private Practice, Wellesley, MA, USA

Reviews

"...inherently practical, useful, and interesting. It offers useful research and diagnostic and clinical information, and is primarily empirical in its presentation. It would serve a variety of professionals as a reference..." --PsycCRITIQUES,November 2014

"The Handbook of Behavioral Addictions is a timely landmark achievement and a must read for anyone interested in addictive and compulsive behavior and its treatment. Rosenberg and Feder have brought us leading addiction experts, who clearly present  the growing evidence for including behavioral addictions in the DSM-5 and how best to treat them. While gambling is the first to be included in the DSM-5 chapter on substance related disorders, other behavioral addictions are likely to follow as evidence grows. This is the most important new textbook in addiction psychiatry in recent years." - Richard Frances MD, Founder of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry

"Just in time for DSM-5’s inclusion of Gambling Disorder  as the first non-substance related addiction amongst the Substance Use Disorders, Drs. Rosenberg and Felder have compiled Behavioral Addictions: Criteria, Evidence, and  Treatment, a well-written and evidence-based  work which will be useful to clinicians and researchers alike. The chapters on addictions as varied as gambling, shopping, sex, and food, are written by luminaries in the field, all of whom carefully define the relatively sparse  data, surmise what they can,  and offer recommendations for the clinic. The book benefits from a common thread of serious inquiry; into the very definition of behavioral addiction, to the peer-led support groups, to the various psychological and pharmacological treatments for these confounding conditions. Rather than   offer easy answers to the questions which the behavioral conditions provoke, the various chapters present the a

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