Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Psychiatry - General

This book provides a practical guide to crisis intervention. It emphasizes the role of violence, patient suicide, long-term sequelae of trauma, clinical assessment and risk management, professional boundaries and burn-out, and the neurophysiology of trauma, as well as the needs of underserved patient populations including minority group members, older adults, gays and lesbians, and children. It features critical reviews of controversial topics, including EMDR, critical incident stress debriefing, recovered memories, dissociative identity disorder, and alternative medicine.

This book is written for any clinician who encounters substance abuse in a patient and wonders what to do. Experts from a cross-section of specialties and health professions provide up-to-date, evidence-based guidance on how non-expert clinicians can recognize, understand, and approach the management of substance abuse in their patients. They detail the range of treatments available and whether and how they work. The central importance of using a carefully selected multimodal approach that is tailored to the individual patient is emphasized throughout and illustrated in case scenarios from...

This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones.Authored by an international group of experts, the remarkable progress and fascinating evolution from rudimentary concepts of the ancient prehistoric and early classical periods to our contemporary knowledge are covered in detail. These examples and their relationship to modern therapies offer neurologists, psychiatrists, respiratory specialists, clinicians, researchers and those interested in sleep medicine an important perspective to the...

The Handbook of Assessing Variants and Complications in Anxiety Disorders assembles current findings on assessment methods and applies them to common complicating factors, including comorbid personality and behavioral problems. Chapters examine innovative approaches to assessment of anxiety in children and adults, provide leading insights into timely topics (e.g., school refusal, self-injurious behaviors), and analyze strengths and weaknesses of widely used assessment tools. In clarifying the assessment process, contributors give readers a clear perspective on choosing treatment...

Keine Angst mehr

Viele Kinder und Jugendliche leiden unter einer Angststorung und haufig hat sie eine Schrittmacherfunktion fur weitere psychische Storungen (wie etwa Depression, Alkohol- ujnd Substanzmissbrauch). In den letzten Jahren haben sich unsere Kenntnisse uber "Kinderangste" erheblich erweitert; wir wissen immer mehr daruber, wie Angststorungen entstehen, wie man sie erkennen und behandeln kann.

Dieses umfassende Handbuch liefert Ihnen erstmals das komplette Wissen zu diesem Thema:

Grundlagen, um Angststorungen besser zu verstehen

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Nuclear Medicine in Psychiatry showcases the combined expertise of renowned authors whose dedication to the investigation of psychiatric disease through nuclear medicine technology has achieved international recognition. Psychiatric disorders are discussed both from categorical and functional psychopathological viewpoint and the latest results in functional neuroimaging are detailed. Most chapters are written jointly by a psychiatrist and a nuclear medicine expert, and each contains a section "Clinical Aspects," to link research data with clinical routine. This...

Mehr als nur Psychiatrie kompakt - Psychiatrie fur die Praxis

Mit der Neuauflage der Psychiatrie fur die Praxis liegen Sie richtig mehr Inhalt als ein Kurzlehrbuch und praxisorientierter als ein umfangreiches Handbuch.

Klar strukturiert und ubersichtlich enthalt dieser Leitfaden
- die ICD-10-Diagnostik
- verstandliche und prazise Handlungsanweisungen ohne uberflussigen Ballast
- einen Fokus auf Diagnostik und Therapie
- Fachwissen auch fur den Nicht-Psychiater

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