Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Surviving, Existing, or Living
Phase-specific therapy for severe psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
For professionals working with people who experience severe psychosis, increasing empirical evidence for the benefits of psychotherapy for psychosis has been especially welcome. Given the limitations of medication-only approaches and the need for an expanded perspective, including for those diagnosed...
by Hanna Levenson, PhD, Stephen F. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
In today's world of managed care -- characterized by limited mental health resources, emphasis on accountability, concerns of third-party payers, and consumer need -- the demand for mental health professionals to use briefer therapeutic approaches is on the rise. Fully 84% of all clinicians are doing...
Descriptive Psychopathology
The Signs and Symptoms of Behavioral Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In order to accurately describe and diagnose psychiatric illness, practitioners require in-depth knowledge of the signs and symptoms of behavioral disorders. Descriptive Psychopathology provides a broad review of the psychopathology of psychiatric illness, beyond the limitations of the DSM and ICD...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2008
Over the last three decades, the visibility -- and public acceptance -- of self-identified lesbian women and gay men and bisexual and transgender individuals has increased dramatically, making it more important than ever to understand the dynamics of their relationships.
This timely work, part...
by Intellectual Disabilities Curriculum Planning Committee
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Based on the psychiatry residency curriculum at the University of Toronto, which includes teaching in and exposure to developmental disabilities (DD), Guidelines for Managing Patients with Intellectual Disability in the Emergency Room can contribute to a better outcome for ER clients and the ER staff...
Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace
Model, Process, and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. Such illness can have serious consequences -- job loss, lawsuits, workplace violence—yet the effects of mental health issues on job functioning are rarely covered in clinical training. In addition,...
The Psychiatric Report
Principles and Practice of Forensic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The written report is central to the practice of psychiatry in legal settings. It is required of mental health professionals acting as expert witnesses in criminal cases, civil litigation situations, child custody proceedings and risk assessments. This book provides a theoretical background to psychiatric...
by Robert C. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this second edition of Depression...
Lost in Dialogue
Anthropology, Psychopathology, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and center. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue...
Committed
The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don’t acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms can render people dangerous to themselves or others, regardless of...
Reinventing Depression
A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing and treating depression have improved millions...
Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to...
Gay Mental Healthcare Providers and Patients in the Military
Personal Experiences and Clinical Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2017
This volume tells the history of homosexuality in the United States military beginning in 1986, when the issue first came to the forefront of social consciousness. Each chapter is written through the eyes of gay mental healthcare providers, covering how to steadily adapt and learn to treat veterans...
Mental Health in the War on Terror
Culture, Science, and Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Neil Krishan Aggarwal's timely study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism. In the process, the state has used psychiatrists and psychologists to furnish knowledge on undesirable populations,...