Fundamentals of Psychiatry

ISBN-13: 9780470665770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 464 str.

Allan Tasman;Wanda Mohr;?Abar

Opis

Allan Tasman, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine, has teamed up with Wanda Mohr, Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, to produce a user-friendly textbook for Psychiatry Residents. Drawing on material from the acclaimed Psychiatry 3e, this book features high quality material, selected on a need-to-know basis, with an emphasis on uniformity, evenness, and accessibility, all within a multi-disciplinary framework.

• Highly suitable for course development and as augmented reading assignments
• Accessible to readers from junior to senior Residents; a good primer on which to focus initially, with pointers to further reading
• Informed by an integrative perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach
• Features sound clinical advice throughout, illustrated with case vignettes
• The sort of book a trainee can dip into easily to access clear knowledge, when one needs relevant information quickly

Recenzje

"Overall the handbook is a well written, engaging, comprehensive review of the current literature on the efficacy of various interventions for alcohol and other illicit drug use disorders. It could become a useful guide for physicians and other health care professionals looking for scientific evidence for relevant interventions, as well as for researchers to better understand where their future studies need to focus on." (Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 2013)

"Distilling the vast amount of psychiatric information into a foundational text is no easy task, yet the authors have masterfully accomplished it, providing a book that will be of great value to those interested in mental health."(Doody′s, 2011)

 

Spis treści

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

UNIT 1 FOUNDATIONS.

Chapter 1 Introduction.

Chapter 2 The Therapeutic Relationship.

Chapter 3 An Integrative Approach to Developmental Psychopathology.

Chapter 4 Psychiatric Classifications.

Chapter 5 Psychiatry and the Neurosciences.

UNIT 2 THE CONTEXT OF CARE.

Chapter 6 Care Settings and the Continuum of Care.

Chapter 7 Cultural Context of Care.

Chapter 8 The Multidisciplinary Treatment Team and Working with Other Professionals.

Chapter 9 Ethical Practice.

Chapter 10 Legal Context of Psychiatric Practice.

UNIT 3 CLINICAL DISORDERS.

Chapter 11 Pediatric Disorders.

Chapter 12 Sleep Disorders.

Chapter 13 Bipolar Mood Disorders.

Chapter 14 Depression.

Chapter 15 Anxiety Disorders.

Chapter 16 Eating Disorders.

Chapter 17 Cognitive Disorders.

Chapter 18 Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence.

Chapter 19 Personality Disorders.

Chapter 20 Stereotyped Movement Disorder and Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Chapter 21 Adjustment Disorder.

Chapter 22 Impulse Control Disorders.

Chapter 23 Mental Disorders due to a Medical Condition.

Chapter 24 Factitious Disorder.

Chapter 25 Schizophrenia and Psychoses.

Chapter 26 Somatoform Disorders.

Chapter 27 Dissociative Disorders.

Chapter 28 Psychological Factors Affecting a Medical Condition.

Chapter 29 Sexual Disorders.

UNIT 4 ASSESSMENT AND THERAPEUTICS.

Chapter 30 Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment Planning, and the Medical Record.

Chapter 31 Psychological Testing and Rating Scales.

Chapter 32 Psychotherapeutic Approaches.

Chapter 33 Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions.

Chapter 34 Antidepressants and Mood Stabilizers.

Chapter 35 Antipsychotic Agents.

Chapter 36 Anxiolytics, Stimulants, and Cognitive Enhancers.

Chapter 37 Somatic Therapies.

UNIT 5 SPECIAL TOPICS.

Chapter 38 Psychiatric Emergencies.

Chapter 39 Violence.

Index.

O autorze

Allan Tasman is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and immediate Past–President of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. He is a world–renowned psychiatric leader and educator and is Secretary for Education of the World Psychiatric Association, responsible for all of the association s worldwide education programmes and initiatives.  He has great experience in writing textbooks, numerous journal articles, book chapters, reports, and articles for the popular press.

Wanda K. Mohr is a certified clinical nurse specialist in child/adolescent psychiatric nursing, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.  She holds a masters degree in behavioral sciences and a PhD in psychiatric nursing. She has almost 40 years of practice and teaching psychiatric nursing.  In addition to the breadth and depth of clinical and academic expertise, she is a professor in a major University School of Nursing and an adjunct clinical associate professor of child psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Blurb

Effective care of complex mental health problems requires teamwork and a shared vision, but standard textbooks overlook the importance of multidisciplinary cooperation. To provide the specific information trainees need for proper patient care, Allan Tasman and Wanda Mohr combined their expertise from Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing to create Fundamentals of Psychiatry, a pioneering work that takes a distinctive integrative and multidisciplinary approach to psychiatry.

They have rewritten the essential information from the main chapters of Psychiatry, Third Edition, (edited by Tasman, Kay, Lieberman, First, and Maj) to produce a thorough but compact first textbook for those in training in mental health or for practitioners interested in a compact clinical reference. The intent was not to be exhaustive or comprehensive, but to distill the content to a "need to know" form.

This book is a complete reference for DSM IV–TR disorders. It includes screening and assessment measures, differential diagnosis, necessary laboratory tests for diagnosis and treatment, the major treatment modalities (including psychopharmacotherapeutics), and special issues practitioners may face in treating patients with each disorder, including consultation and referral. It also provides information on therapeutic relationships, professional relationships, diagnostic methods, psychiatric emergencies, cultural and ethical/legal issues.

The nature of psychiatric disorders is such that understanding the person who has the illness, with all their pre–existing personal strengths and weaknesses, is essential to optimal understanding of the patient and for implementing a treatment plan. The authors take an integrative approach to patient care that acknowledges the complexity and uniqueness of the whole person within his or her contexts, making use of many means of understanding them. This philosophical approach affirms the collaborative relationship between patients, their families, and caregivers from different disciplines.

Within their unique multidisciplinary framework, the authors present an extremely well–written guide that:

• features sound clinical advice throughout, reflecting current thinking without overwhelming the reader with references and data
• presents clinical vignettes that illustrate common situations
• is especially suitable for course development and as augmented reading assignments
• is accessible to readers from junior to senior trainees.

This careful condensation of the massive psychiatric knowledge base is as engaging as it is user–friendly. Mental health professionals in training and in practice can turn to Fundamentals of Psychiatry with confidence in not only the quality of the material, but also the relevance to actual patient care.

Also of Interest

Tasman, Kay, Lieberman, First and Maj, Psychiatry, Third Edition, ISBN 9780470065716