Encountering Treatment Resistance: Solutions Through Reconceptualization

Recent studies suggest that up to 60% of psychiatric diagnoses are eventually labeled as treatment resistant, highlighting incomplete assessments, inadequate treatment planning, poor compliance, and faulty therapeutic alliances. Encountering Treatment Resistance argues that it is time to move away from treatment resistance and toward pending remission. The book provides best practices for problem-solving, ensures thorough evaluations, highlights common medical causes of treatment failure, and illustrates how impaired therapeutic alliances interfere with diagnosis, treatment selection, and compliance. It includes summaries, key points, and self-assessment questions for each chapter to reinforce knowledge.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 23 June 2024
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Recent studies indicate that between 20% and 60% of psychiatric diagnoses may eventually be classified as treatment-resistant, highlighting the need for a clear definition and criteria for this condition. In Encountering Treatment Resistance, the author argues that it is time to move away from treatment resistance and toward pending remission. The book discusses the processes underlying conceptualization and how inaccurate or misleading concepts may be developed, best practices for problem-solving, and methods to ensure thorough evaluations at each patient contact. It also highlights common medical causes of treatment failure and examples of impaired therapeutic alliances interfering with diagnosis, treatment selection, and compliance. Numerous tables present information in an easily scanned format, and real-world case vignettes illustrate how the presented concepts lead to improved outcomes. Suggestions for additional reading and discussion topics facilitate collaboration, promote knowledge exchange, and broaden and deepen understanding. The book includes summaries, key points, and self-assessment questions for each chapter, transforming important concepts into applicable knowledge.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 231 x 154 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781615375158