Teaches clinicians to apply a variety of treatment strategies that empower patients to control depression and live healthier lives.

Case formulation is a key skill for mental health practitioners. This book provides examples of ten case formulations representing common mental health problems in a variety of populations and contexts, offering commentary on contrasting formulations of the same case. It covers the major theoretical perspectives in clinical practice.

From domestic abuse to political terror, new edition, with a new afterward by the author.

A guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs. It explains how people taking the drugs experience their side effects compared to the benefits they may bring. It includes thinking on the rationale for drug treatments to help mental health professionals and service users understand therapeutic decision making.

Introduces the importance of vitamins and its use in the treatment of schizophrenia, mood and movement disorders. This book features the chapters that include theoretical and scientific background as well as practical data based conclusions which might be useful for the clinician in practice.

Depression is a common but serious illness, and most who experience it need treatment to get better. This book explores mental depression; it's forms, causes and treatments. It describes research in this field, including the development of medications, psychotherapies, and other methods which have been used to people with this disabling disorder.

A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

Provides perspectives on the stressful transitions across the lifespan, this book discusses the transitions and balances theoretical knowledge with practical applications from transitions in health, adulthood and aging, to spirituality and cultural influences in the life cycle. It is suitable for mental health researchers and professionals.

Describes neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, measurement and management of a wide range of mental illnesses.

Dulcans Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry supplants the previous textbook edited by Jerry Wiener and Mina Dulcannot with a new edition, but rather a new book that offers a fresh look at the field of child mental health. It preserves Wieners vision of a clinically focused textbook useful to trainees and practitioners in a variety of specialties, providing the most up-to-date and ...

Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making the correct psychiatric diagnosis and choosing the most appropriate treatment option. This book combines clinically-relevant information about each of the DSM-IV-TR diagnoses with information on treatment options, giving clinical management advice.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of developmental, clinical, and social aspects of mental health from birth to the preschool years.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recently changed the format of its membership examination to adopt multiple choice questions (MCQs). The book of mock MCQ papers includes 650 questions and answers covering all subjects of the Paper II curriculum.

This controversial book overturns the claim that psychiatric drugs work by correcting chemical imbalance, and analyzes the professional, commercial and political vested interests that have shaped this view. It provides a comprehensive critique of research on drugs including antidepressants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers.

Describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments applied. This book summarizes the knowledge about the biological bases of this disorder. It attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia, and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between the mind and the brain.

Demonstrates that women's mental health and psychiatric disorders cannot be divorced from social, cultural and political realities. This book includes chapters that explore pregnancy and the postpartum period, the consequences of female genital mutilation, and migration and mental health.

Following the recent changes to the psychiatry training curriculum by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this is the first book of its kind specifically written to offer revision support for the new Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) exam. It combines practical information with invaluable suggestions of how one might phrase particular questions and direct the conversation ...

An account of cognitive behaviour therapy which provides a detailed account of how to carry out a cognitive-behavioural assessment and how to use the resulting information to treat various conditions ranging from general anxiety to chronic psychiatric handicaps.

Features 60 high-yield cases in Psychiatry that help you excel in the clerkship and improve your shelf-exam scores. This title also helps students to enhance their diagnostic and problem-solving skills.

Presents an examination of the problem of suicidal behaviour within the context of child and adolescent behaviour. This title covers such developmental issues as: the evolving capacity for emotional self-regulation, change and stresses in family, peer, and romantic relationships, and developing conceptions of time and death.