Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Psychiatry

by Ebert, Michael H.; Loosen, Peter T.; Nurcombe, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780838514627
• ISBN10: 0838514626
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-20
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical

Summary

This new CURRENT presents a comprehensive approach to the clinical practice of psychiatry form a biologic perspective. It includes a standard chapter organization wherever possible tailored specifically for psychiatry such as etiology, phenomenology, pathophysiology, drug info and treatment. Contributors have been very carefully chose and, although primarily from Vanderbilt, will also include such well known clinicians as Herbert Meltzer and Charles V. Ford from other institutions

Table of Contents

Section I: Scientific Areas Relevant to Modern Psychiatry.

Developmental Psychology.

Behavioral & Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions.

Neuropsychopharmacology.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Psychicatric Genetics.

Mental Health Services Research.

Section II: Techniques & Settings.

Psychiatric Interview.

Clinical Decision Making in Psychiatry.

General Principles of Psychopharmacologic Treatment.

General Principles of Psychotherapeutic Management.

Psychological Testing in Psychiatry.

Emergency Psychiatry.

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Psychiatry & the Law.

Continuity of Care.

Section III: Syndromes And Their Treatments in Adult Psychiatry.

Delirium, Dementia, & Amnestic Syndromes.

Substance-Related Disorders.

Schizophrenia.

Other Psychotic Disorders.

Mood Disorders.

Anxiety Disorders.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder & Acute Stress Disorder.

Obesessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Somatoform Disorders.

Factitious Disorders & Malingering.

Dissociative Disorders.

Sexual Dysfunctions & Paraphilias.

Eating Disorders.

Sleep Disorders.

Impulse-Control Disorders.

Adjustment Disorders.

Personaltiy Disorders.

Section IV: Techniques & Settings in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Diagnostic Encounter.

Diagnostic Evaluation.

Diagnostic Formulation, Treatment Planning, & Modes of Treatment.

Section V: Syndromes & Their Treatments in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Disorders Usually Presenting in Infancy or Early Childhood (0-5 years).

Disorders Usually Presenting in Middle Childhood (6-11 years).

Other Conditions Occurring in Childhood or Adolescence.

Index.