About the Book
This comprehensive and revised handbook brings together significant psychological and biological findings available on depression. Chapters cover psychological areas such as cognitive, behavioural, interpersonal, couple and family therapy - and discuss populations such as children, adolescents, women and the elderly. It also covers biological subjects such as genetic research, pharmacotherapy and somatic therapy, and medical diagnosis. Helpful appendices discuss how to use and where to obtain instruments for assessing adult and childhood depression. One of these instruments, the Hamilton Rating Scale, appears in its entirety in Appndix A. Mental health professionals treating depressed persons and their families, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, physicians and councellors should find this book valuable.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Defining the boundaries of depression: epidemiology of depression, Kaelber et al; the diagnostic classification of depression, Beckham et al; the assessment of severity and symptom patterns in depression, Katz et al; depression and its boundaries with selected axis I disorders, Maser et al; the relationship of depression to disorders of personality, Millon and Kotik-Harper; comorbidity of depression and other medical conditions, Stevens et al. Part 2 Biological processes and treatments: genetic research in bipolar illness, Sevy et al; biological processes in depression - an updated review and integration, Thase and Howland; pharmacotherapy and somatic therapies, Fava and Rosenbaum; medical diagnostic procedures for depression - an update from a decade of promise, Kravitz and Newman. Part 3 Psychological therapies and combined treatments: cognitive theory and therapy, Sacco and Beck; behavioural theory and treatment of depression, Lewinsohn and Gotlib; interpersonal psychotherapy, Markowitz and Weissman; long-term analytic treatment of depression, Bemporad; couple and family therapy for depression, Prince and Jacobson; psychotherapy integration - implications for the treatment of depression, Safran and Inck; comparing and combining short-term psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for depression, Jarrett. Part 4 Specific populations: depression in children and adolescents, Speier et al; depression in later life - epidemiology, assessment, aetiology and treatment, Thompson et al; epidemiology, assessment and management of suicide in depressed patients, Clark; women and depression - a comprehensive analysis, Brems. Part 5 Psychological and social contexts: life context, coping processes and depression, Cronkite and Moos; appendix A - instruments for assessing depression in adults, Nordgren; Appendix B - instruments for assessing depression in children, Willis.
About the Author :
E. Edward Beckham, PhD, is a clinical associate professor at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and also has a private practice. From 1991 to 1994, he led a National Institute of Mental Health D/ART grant, Depression: Awareness, Recognition, and Treatment as a Principal Investigator.
Review :
"Beckham and Leber have again assembled a masterful review of current findings in depression. This superb volume provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of theoretically and clinically essential material, with contributions from an impressive list of leading experts in the field. It is a truly valuable resource for practice, training, and research in the area of depression." --M. Tracie Shea, Ph.D. "The second edition of the Handbook of Depression represents a current view of our knowledge base in depression, providing excellent discussions of key conceptual and methodological issues in depression. The editors have provided an eminently readable handbook which provides the reader with a broad, comprehensive, set of chapters providing perspectives on the diagnosis of depression, a review of biological processes, as well as both psychological and pharmacologic therapies in depression. Sections on specific populations who suffer from mood disorders are also included.
Finally, the writing is clear and provides an excellent forum for the authors, all of whom are experts in their own specific areas. This handbook will be used by students, practitioners, and all mental health professionals in their daily work, and is especially recommended to all students." --David J. Kupfer, M.D. (Guilford author)
..".both the editors and the authors appear to have made extraordinary efforts to weave research and clinical implications into plain language descriptions of theory...The centerpiece of the handbook is the section on psychological treatments, which includes discussions of five separate models of therapy that are used to treat depression and chapters on integrating different therapies and combining psychological and pharmacological treatments..." --Valerie E. Whiffen in Contemporary Psychology
FEEDBACK FROM INSTRUCTOR SURVEY:
..".a useful text and very appropriate for the graduate level student in psychology."
"[The] Level and tone of the book are perfect. My students are MA and PhD students in psychology."
..".touches on most areas necessary for my students to be familiar with."
..".the scope is excellent."
"Excellent as a text, and...as a professional reference book."
"The authors have accomplished what they set out to do.... It will be of value to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and students in each of these fields... Two useful appendixes provide information about instruments to measure depression on adults and children... This is a valuable reference which belongs in every health sciences library in its new edition. The chapters are well-written and authoritative." -- Doody's Journal
"Beckham and Leber's handbook is a comprehensive review of research and theory on depression: 21 chapters, two appendixes, 22- page index. The most relevant part of the book would be the chapter on depression in later life by Futterman, Thompson, Gallagher-Thompson and Ferris. The appendix also gives information on how to acquire scales. Unfortunately, there is an excessive commitment to providing comprehensive coverage of what research has been done, and that leads to content overlaps and more discussion of the MMPI depression scale than the GDS." -- Clinical Gerontologist
"The authors have accomplished what they set out to do.... It will be of value to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and students in each of these fields... Two useful appendixes provide information about instruments to measure depression on adults and children... This is a valuable reference which belongs in every health sciences library in its new edition. The chapters are well-written and authoritative." --"Doody's Journal"
"Beckham and Leber's handbook is a comprehensive review of research and theory on depression: 21 chapters, two appendixes, 22- page index. The most relevant part of the book would be the chapter on depression in later life by Futterman, Thompson, Gallagher-Thompson and Ferris. The appendix also gives information on how to acquire scales. Unfortunately, there is an excessive commitment to providing comprehensive coverage of what research has been done, and that leads to content overlaps and more discussion of the MMPI depression scale than the GDS." --"Clinical Gerontologist"
