Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Psychiatrists in Combat
Mental Health Clinicians' Experiences in the War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book tells the professional and personal experiences of American military psychiatrists and their colleagues in the longest conflict in American history. These highly trained men and women treat service members for the psychological consequences from their experiences in battle, including killing...
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a revelatory and deeply compassionate memoir that takes readers inside Bellevue, and brings to life the world—the system, the staff, and the haunting cases—that shaped one young psychiatrist as she learned...
Integrated Care for Complex Patients
A Narrative Medicine Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book presents case-based descriptions of models for the inclusive, multispecialty and multidisciplinary clinical care of complex cases. Cases range from primary care patients with complex systemic medical and psychiatric comorbidity, to those requiring specialty care, to those with potentially...
Letters From the Clinic
Letter Writing in Clinical Practice for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In every field of therapeutic practice a significant amount of time is spent writing letters about and to patients. In Letters From the Clinic Derek Steinberg applies detailed literary and psychological analysis to over 40 letters, highlighting why certain words or phrases were used, how they could...
Mental Health Worldwide
Culture, Globalization and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This comprehensive book provides a framework for healthcare providers working with the dual challenges and opportunities presented by the intersection of mental health and technology. Technology and Adolescent Mental Health provides recent, evidence-based approaches that are applicable to clinical...
by Tamara McClintock Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Endorsements:
"The Second Edition of Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness is a timely and superb revision which offers health-care professionals working at the mind/body interface a paradigm shift. For far too long, the wisdom of psychoanalysis as a tool to understand the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent progress in brain science has been remarkable, especially with regard to advances in the area of neuroscience. Particularly in the past decade, there have been many important discoveries about signal transduction in the brain. With this background, biological research in affective disorders...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
The first of its kind, this book reflects progress in a too-little explored corner of psychiatry to show that gender plays an integral role in mental health issues for men. Textbook of Men's Mental Health provides clinicians with the information they need for understanding how certain disorders manifest...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
The new edition of this critically praised textbook continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field; particularly the application of molecular genomics and of neuroimaging. It has been revised and enhanced to capitalize on the strengths...
Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness
Genetic and Environmental Influences
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
A major benchmark in the understanding of psychiatric illness in children and adolescents, Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness reports on progress in identifying genetic and environmental influences on emotional-behavioral disorders. A team of 22 international authorities presents work that...
Refuge and Resilience
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
'Solid, plausible, accurate and loaded with pertinent and highly referenced information regarding clinical and basic research in alcholism among women and ethnic groups...an essential text in the libraries of academicians, teachers, clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. The quality and scope...
Clinical Risk Management
An introductory text for mental health professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
An essential primer for mental health professionals, written with an emphasis on patient care
Straightforward and accessible, Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians is an essential resource for anyone working in the mental health field in Australia.
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