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The Mental Health Professional in Court: A Survival Guide is designed to help mental health professionals become more knowledgeable about the settings, assumptions, personnel, issues, and techniques involved in going to court, with the aim of demystifying the legal process and reducing anxiety about this inherently stressful experience.

The Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Nurses is designed to serve as both an academic textbook and a reference book for Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (P.M.H.-A.P.R.N.s) as well as mental health practitioners, general practitioners, and consumers.

Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury is an up-to-the-minute, comprehensive, and useful text designed to support busy physicians, nurses, and mental health professionals working with persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and their families.

The book provides clinicians, researchers, and policy makers with an examination of current advances in research and treatment. This book incorporates DSM-IV criteria and the diagnostic category acute stress disorder.

This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on an emotion generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic love. This edition emphasizes the relevance of passion not only to lovers but also to mental health professionals whose patients often enter treatment because of love-related issues.

Reviews the comorbidity of mental and chronic physical syndromes in an epidemiological and life course context, offering fresh insights and identifying crucial clues - gleaned from the overlapping areas or areas of mutual pathogenesis linking disparate realms of knowledge - to the etiology and nosological distinctiveness of both physical and mental disorders.

Part psychiatric textbook and part self-help manual for patients and clients, Fatal Flaws reviews comprehensively the course, treatment, genetics, biology, psychology, and destructive consequences of hysterical (histrionic), narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, addictive, borderline, and schizotypal personality disorders.

The book examines the use of psychotherapy for dysthymic disorder, or chronic depression. This useful, innovative guide describes how to adapt interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)-a proven, time-limited therapy that has benefited patients who have other mood disorders and psychiatric syndromes-to treat dysthymic disorder.

The book reflects the remarkable changes in both psychiatry and family therapy over the past several decades.

Updates to this edition include information on clozapine in treatment of schizophrenia, tardive dyskinesia, ECT, suicide risk assessment, violence risk assessment, numerous tables and an updated glossary of legal terms and new section on common terms and abbreviations in legal citations.

Packed with practical advice from experts, and based on the editor's many years of organizing career seminars for psychiatric residents, Entering Private Practice: A Handbook for Psychiatrists offers a comprehensive and systematic approach to setting out on a career in private practice.

The book focuses on measuring the basic processes of mental healthcare, such as access, detection, treatment appropriateness, safety and continuity of care. It integrates practical information about quality measures into a highly readable guide on how to implement measures and use the results improve quality of care.

This book will benefit clinicians managing catatonic phenomena as well as researchers interested in pursuing further investigations. It covers in great detail the psychopathology and neurobiology of catatonia, focusing on the history, epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the disorder.

Over the last three decades, the visibility 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 offers compelling facts and insights in a concise yet comprehensive format, bringing together the latest research and clinical practice.

This book teaches psychiatrists, mental health professionals, and administrators how reviewers think and how to present a case in a manner that greatly increases the likelihood that a reviewer will approve the request for care. Issues are highlighted in vignettes illustrating a clinician's presentation of a case and a typical reviewer's comments.

Offers a broad and scholarly synthesis of the current knowledge - and controversies - about somatoform and factitious disorders. Here you'll find up-to-date, clinically focused overviews of these intriguing and often difficult-to-treat disorders. Recognized experts present the latest findings along with insightful recommendations and illustrative case studies.

This hard-hitting volume focuses on recurrences-perhaps most important among the many factors (from underdiagnosis and undertreatment to genetic vulnerability) that contribute to MDD's high morbidity.

This work offers fresh insights on five major topic areas in child and adolescent PTSD, forensic aspects of traumatized children, juvenile offender and incarcerated youth, biological treatment strategies, and the relationship between exposure to trauma in childhood and the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood.

Outlines a framework for understanding, diagnosing, treating, and preventing these little-understood disorders. This new edition extensively updates and revises the first edition, integrating an explosion of findings that have occurred since the earlier edition was published.

This book explores the role of the psychiatrist and psychologist, as an expert witness in litigation, in rendering a retrospective judgment of an individual's mental state. The contributors apply their expertise in psychiatry, psychology, and law with the goal of developing guidelines for more accurate retrospective assessment of mental states.

The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services on issues in community treatment of severe mental illness.

Presenting a vivid historical account of the contributions that black psychiatrists have made to American psychiatry, this important book documents the growth and influence of the group in tandem with the advancement of the field as a whole. It provides us with a deep appreciation for what these pioneers accomplished and the hurdles they overcame.

This practice guideline seeks to summarize data and specific forms of treatment regarding the care of patients with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this guideline is to assist the psychiatrist in caring for a patient with HIV/AIDS by reviewing the treatments that patients with HIV/AIDS may need.

This book presents today's ethical dilemmas regarding boundary violations; children, adolescents, and families; geriatric populations; involuntary hospitalization; managed care; confidentiality; gifts; duty to report colleagues who engage in fraud or deception; emergency care; forensic psychiatry; and consultations and second opinions.

This practical guideline offers invaluable information to psychiatrists who care for patients with delirium. In helping the clinician provide treatments that address the underlying etiology of the delirium, it discusses psychiatric management, environmental and supportive interventions, and specific pharmacologic treatments.

The book discusses depression, its symptoms, causes, treatment and phases, medications, and suicide risk. This is a package of 5.

This is a task force report on dangerous sex offenders.

This task force report from the American Psychiatric Assocation covers clinician safety.

This handbook provides clinicians with timely and useful information that will help psychiatrists obtain optimal coverage of services for patients. Among the issues addressed are frequently encountered problems, confidentiality, contracting, and the process of utilization management.

Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity, and Abuse provides clinicians with a review of the available information on the potential hazards of benzodiazepine treatment and offers suggestions for the rational prescription of these medications.