Years of education, training, and experience are required to prepare psychiatrists and psychiatry residents for the culmination of their professional efforts: Board certification. This title provides practical, systematic preparation for one of the most stressful events in a psychiatrist's professional life.

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 ...

Provides useful information to the patient and encompasses 64 drugs, from alprazolam to zolpidem. Organized by generic drug name, with brand names indicated and indexed, this guide offers clinicians a medication handout for parents and teachers and a separate medication handout for youth. It is suitable for psychiatrists and pediatricians.

In the quest to improve the reliability of diagnostic criteria, there is a search for new approaches to understanding the etiological and pathophysiological mechanisms that can improve the validity of diagnoses. This text is an attempt to stimulate research and discussion in the field.

The Handbook of Psychiatric Measures offers a concise summary of key evaluations that clinicians can use in daily practice to enhance the quality of patient care in terms of both diagnosis and assessment of outcomes. Comprising a wide range of methods available for assessing persons with mental health problems, it contains more than 275 rating methods, from the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale

This text includes all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV in a small paperback format.

The DSM-IV-TR spans the gap between DSM-IV and DSM-V, incorporating relevant advances in knowledge of psychiatric illness and enhancing educational value. It includes additional information on associated features, including laboratory and physical findings, for many of the disorders.

The mental health assessment and treatment of youngsters with physical symptoms and illnesses pose complex challenges to clinicians. This book describes an integrative approach to behavioral health problems in children and adolescents who are physically ill. It offers a practical method of mental health consultation in the medical setting.

Presents quantitative assessment of potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed to harm) for the approved treatments for bipolar disorder, providing clinicians with information needed to balance benefits and risks in order to render individualized evidence-based care.

Reflecting tremendous gains over the past decade in our understanding of the causes of autism, Clinical Manual for the Treatment of Autism meets the increasing need for clear, up-to-date, and evidence-based treatment. Internationally known researchersAwho are also skilled in treating patients with autismAshare treatment approaches they have either developed or thoroughly tested for safety and ...

Discusses the common illnesses and problems seen in doctors and also the many biopsychosocial treatments that are indicated. This book considers such issues as the uniqueness of the physician's psychological makeup that facilitates or impedes diagnosis and treatment, and describes the most common medical and psychiatric illnesses in physicians.

Sexuality is an integral part of gender identity, self-image, and overall well-being. Sexual problems have a high prevalence in the general population and also among patients with mental disorders. This book addresses the management and treatment of sexual dysfunctions. It explores and evaluates the many facets of sexual dysfunction.

This text provides information to help clinicians navigate entering capitation agreements with managed care organizations. It includes an overview of the financial, administrative and clinical issues, and a demonstration disk designed specifically for psychiatrists accompanies the book.

This work translates the clinical concepts and terminology of DSM-IV-TR into vivid three-dimensional examples to help the clinician take full advantage of the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria. The case studies bring to life the process of differential diagnosis.

In this extensively revised and expanded new edition of the classic, The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, the authors continue to address the challenges inherent in clinical interviewing?A?A?A?A?A?A?A?Athe complexities of defense mechanisms, conflicts, wishes, and fantasies?A?A?A?A?A?A?A?Aas they did in their original 1971 edition while also acknowledging the task of adapting their ...

The widespread use of nonconventional treatments, or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) call for a concerted scientific effort to integrate treatments that work into mainstream medicines. This work reviews the many CAM approaches used in North America and Europe to treat mental health problems, and the history for various CAM treatments.

In a rapidly changing and often controversial field, this book is designed to meet the needs of clinicians who want to provide state-of-the-art care to younger patients with psychiatric disorders. Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is a succinct and practical guide, written by expert authorities with both clinical and research expertise, containing a wealth of both ...

This volume addresses the importance of the study of hair pulling from both a clinical and research perspective. Topics include: the assessment of trichotillomania; the use of medication; the place of a psychodynamic perspective; the value of behavioural interventions; and the role of hypnotherapy.

Provides a concise overview of Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) that offers practical guidance for psychiatrists and other clinicians using it as a therapy. This work begins with background on the physics and safety of TMS, a guide for administering the procedure, and a review of basic neurophysiological studies with TMS.