Integrative Psychobiological Approach to Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment

摘要: A Developmental approach to integrative psychobiology provides a flexible framework for both clinical assessment and treatment planning. Assessment of seven dimensions personality using the Temperament Character Inventory (TCI) allows comprehensive description individual differences in feelings, thoughts, actions. Four temperament factors that are stable throughout life can be decomposed terms their underlying genetic structure. mature response social learning components unfold stepwise fashion from infancy through adulthood. Pharmacotherapy psychotherapy systematically matched structure stage character development each individual. This paradigm integrates psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, neurobiological insights into case formulation. Use TCI planning was illustrated by independently assessed Mardi Horowitz another approach.