The Dysregulated Adult: Integrated Treatment Approaches. [L'adulte Dérégulé: Approches De Traitement Intégré]
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Abstract
DeGangi* G. A. (2012). The DysregulatedAdult: Integrated Treatment Approaches. [L'adulte deregule : approches de traitement integre.] London, UK: Academic Press. ISBN: 978-0-12-385011-9, 504 pagesABSTRACTThis is a review of the newly published book, The DysregulatedAdult: Integrated Treatment Approaches, by Georgia A. DeGangi. The review summarizes the general purpose and content of the book, offers readers a more in-depth discussion of the content covered, and finally discusses this reviewer s perception of how well the author was able to succeed in addressing the topic.RESUMEIl s'agit d'un compte rendu de l'ouvrage recemment publie, The Dysregulated Adult: Integrated Treatment Approaches, de Georgia A DeGangi. Ce compte rendu tente de resumer l'objet general et le contenu de l'ouvrage, afin de presenter aux lecteurs une discussion plus detaillee du contenu en cause, pour finalement presenter la perception du lecteur critique quant a la reussite de l'auteure dans sa tentative d'analyse du sujet.The Dysreguhted Adult: Integrative Treatment Approaches provides an in-depth exploration of the problems of self-regulation in adults. Although the inclusion of a section that briefly reviews attachment theories and emotional regulation issues with infants and children would be helpful, the author does provide an in-depth discussion of how emotional dsyregulation appears in adults, including the variety of symptoms and diagnoses that clients may present with that mask and/or exacerbate the underlying dysregulatory problems that may have gone undiagnosed for years. Included are case examples as well as useful checklists, treatment strategies, and skills sheets to help clinicians in working with such cases as they present for treatment. The authors background and training are in occupational as well as clinical and developmental psychology, and her work with infants, children, and adults appears to have allowed her to understand the complex nature of emotional regulation issues. Tire integrative nature of her treatment approach includes attention to the neuro biological, interpersonal, and mind-body aspects of such symptoms.This book is laid out in a well-structured and comprehensive format. It begins with overview chapters that discuss the general problems of self-regulation in adults, and then moves on to the issue of mood dysreguktion specifically. From there, the book expounds on several specific diagnostic areas that may often intersect with mood dysreguktion symptoms. These include chapters on anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sleep disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The final two chapters are focused on issues of the sensory defensive adult and on the problems of attachment and intimacy in adults. Each chapter includes a general description of the symptomatology, a case study or studies, and checklists for both client and clinician to assess specific symptoms as well as to understand the impact on general functioning. Throughout the specific chapters on diagnostic areas, there are referrals to the appendices that include 20 skills sheets aimed at specific ways to work with dysregulation. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".