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Understanding the Emotional Disorders
A Symptom-Level Approach Based on the IDAS-II
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Improving the measurement of symptoms of emotional disorders has been an important goal of mental health research. In direct response to this need, the Expanded Version of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II) was developed to assess symptom dimensions underlying psychological disorders. Unlike other scales that serve as screening instruments used for diagnostic purposes, the IDAS-II is not closely tethered to the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM); rather, its scales cut across DSM boundaries to examine psychopathology in a dimensional rather than a categorical way. Developed by authors David Watson and Michael O'Hara, the IDAS-II has broad implications for our understanding of psychopathology.

Understanding the Emotional Disorders is the first manual for how to use the IDAS-II and examines important, replicable symptom dimensions contained within five adjacent diagnostic classes in the DSM-5: depressive disorders, bipolar and related disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders. It reviews problems and limitations associated with traditional, diagnosis-based approaches to studying psychopathology and
establishes the theoretical and clinical value of analyzing specific types of symptoms within the emotional disorders. It demonstrates that several of these disorders contain multiple symptom dimensions that clearly can be differentiated from one another. Moreover, these symptom dimensions are highly robust
and generalizable and can be identified in multiple types of data, including self-ratings, semi-structured interviews, and clinicians' ratings. Furthermore, individual symptom dimensions often have strikingly different correlates, such as varying levels of criterion validity, incremental predictive power, and diagnostic specificity. Consequently, it is more informative to examine these specific types of symptoms, rather than the broader disorders. The book concludes with the development of a
more comprehensive, symptom-based model that subsumes various forms of psychopathology-including sleep disturbances, eating- and weight-related problems, personality pathology, psychosis/thought disorder, and hypochondriasis-beyond the emotional disorders.


Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: Understanding the Emotional Disorders

Chapter 2: Development of the IDAS & IDAS-II

Chapter 3: The Structure, Specificity and Validity of Depression Symptoms

Chapter 4: Positive Mood Dysfunction in Psychopathology

Chapter 5: The Nature and Structure of Bipolar Symptoms

Chapter 6: Anger and Psychopathology

Chapter 7: The Structure, Validity and Specificity of PTSD Symptoms

Chapter 8: Anxiety Symptoms

Chapter 9: The Structure, Validity and Specificity of OCD Symptoms

Chapter 10: Toward a Comprehensive Symptom-Based Model of Psychopathology

About the Authors
Index


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780199301096
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: May, 2017
Pages: 336
Dimensions: 156.00 x 241.00 x 33.00
Weight: 594g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Counselling & Therapy, Diseases and Disorders, Psychology

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