Treating Those with Mental Disorders: A Comprehensive Approach to Diagnosis, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (16 September 2025) © 2026

  • Victoria E. Kress
  • Matthew J. Paylo Youngstown State University
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Title overview

Treating Those with Mental Disorders is designed to help future and newly practicing counselors feel empowered to thoughtfully and deliberately assist clients in managing complex issues and difficulties. It offers specific treatment planning, implementation, and intervention strategies in addition to background information on clinical issues and DSM-5-TR diagnoses and interventions. Real-life examples illustrate how critical counseling concepts and approaches are applied in actual practice.

The 3rd Edition updates all chapters to reflect the new content and research in the DSM-5-TR. It incorporates the most current research literature in all updated treatment discussions; explores the changing landscape of the mental health counseling field; adds discussion of the use of AI as related to diagnosing and treating; and much more.

Table of contents

  1. Developing Effective Treatment Plans
  2. Real World Treatment Planning: Systems, Culture, and Ethics
  3. Safety-Related Clinical Issues and Treatment Planning
  4. Depressive, Bipolar, and Related Disorders
  5. Anxiety Disorders
  6. Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  7. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
  8. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
  9. Personality Disorders
  10. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
  11. Feeding and Eating Disorders
  12. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, Conduct, and Elimination Disorders
  13. Neurodevelopmental and Neurocognitive Disorders
  14. Dissociative Disorders and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
  15. Sleep-Wake Disorders, Sexual Dysfunctions, Paraphilic Disorders, and Gender Dysphoria

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