Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults: Clinical Features, Diagnostic Dilemmas and Treatment Guidelines

Separation Anxiety Disorder in Adults provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding the development, manifestation, and treatment of adult separation anxiety. The book explores precursors and triggers to both childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder, comorbidity with other disorders and conditions, and characteristics of populations and individuals with separation anxiety. Assessment and treatment are comprehensively covered, discussing how treatment for adults difers from that for children. Clinical review questionnaires are included for immediate use in practice. 

Reviews the diagnosis, assessment, management, and treatment of adult separation anxietyCovers how treatment for adults differs from that for childrenIdentifies precursors and triggers to separation anxietyDiscusses comorbidity with other disorders and conditionsIncludes clinical review questionnaire measures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. A journey of discovery: separation anxiety disorder in adults

2. Making a diagnosis of separation anxiety 3. The assessment of separation anxiety and separation anxiety disorder

4. Characteristics of populations and individuals with adult separation anxiety disorder

5. Adult separation anxiety and attachment theory

6. Developmental models of separation anxiety disorder

7. Exploring the continuity hypothesis of separation anxiety

8. The biological foundations of separation anxiety

9. Precursors and triggers to childhood and adult separation anxiety disorder

10. Comorbidity with other disorders and conditions

11. Implications for the treatment of adult separation anxiety disorder

12. Issues and challenges associated with understanding adult separation anxiety disorder

The Separation Anxiety Symptom Inventory (SASI)

ASA-27

Index