Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice, Volume II
Use of Polypharmacy in the "Real World"
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Although monotherapy is generally recommended as the treatment of choice, treatment resistance of patients with psychosis, cognitive, mood and anxiety disorders represents a significant clinical problem. In this context, augmentation and combination strategies are commonly employed to address this...
Homicide
A Psychiatric Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Most professional books on the subject of homicide convey a criminological or legal standpoint. Homicide: A Psychiatric Perspective complements those approaches by offering a clinical understanding unique in the literature, considering not merely the crime but the broad spectrum of homicidal behavior....
Essential Psychiatry
A guide to important principles for nurses and laboratory technicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
1.0 Introduction 1.1 Philosophy 1.2 Ethics 1.3 Ethical aspects of nursing 1.4 Code of ethics 1.5 Personal aspects of illness 1.6 Social aspects of illness 1.7 Economic aspects of illness 1.8 Summary 1.0 Introduction As a nurse you are going to be caring for other people, many of whom may be very ill...
Hallunications In Clinical Psychiatry
A Guide For Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Per Bech
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Clinical Psychometrics is an introduction to the long-term attempt to measure the psychiatric dimension of dementia, schizophrenia, mania, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, extraversion/introversion and health-related quality of life.
The two psychometric procedures, classical factor analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It is clear that child and adolescent psychiatric disorders impose a heavy burden of suffering. Recent large-scale community epidemiological studies suggest that as many as 20% of children and adolescents in the general population may have clinically important mental disorders. These disorders are...
Preventing Patient Suicide
Clinical Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Today's psychiatrists practice in an environment that poses difficult challenges. Both treatment time and duration are limited by insurance requirements; many facilities are understaffed; split treatment arrangements are typical; and high-risk, acutely suicidal patients are admitted to inpatient units...
by Joel Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5® is the second edition of the widely-read book first published in 2013. This second edition is thoroughly revised, and has several new chapters describing the response to the publication of the new manual, as well as suggestions on its use in clinical...
by Craig L. Katz, MD, Anand Pandya
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Disasters! Looking beyond their acute impact to how they affect communities in the years that follow is the focus of discussion in this issue of Psychiatric Clinics. Reviews of cases of well known disasters such as 9/11, the 2004 South Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake of 2010,...
A Lexicon of Lunacy
Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility and Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the...
Genetic Research in Psychiatry
“2. Münchner Genetikgespräche” September 12 – 15, 1991 C.I.N.P. President’s Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Major and exciting advances in psychiatric genetics were discussed at a 3-day international workshop. The internationally renowned editors assembledan impressive list of specialists, all of whom are leading in their subject. Reviews and short articles which stress special problems or new research...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
There is a need to not only understand psychiatric emergencies in low- and middle-income countries but also to formulate logical and acceptable forms of intervention. This book gives the reader an overview of the kinds of psychiatric emergencies that can occur and the strategies employed to manage...
by Beng Yeong Ng, Daniel Fung
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book is a compilation by local mental health experts on the development of mental health services in Singapore after 1993. The year was the end point of an earlier book "Till the Break of Dawn — A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore (1841–1993)" that had been written...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Mental health and HIV/AIDS are closely interlinked. Mental disorders, including substance-use disorders, are associated with increased risk of HIV infection and affect adherence to and efficacy of antiretroviral treatments. Conversely, HIV infection can increase risk for neuropsychiatric complications...