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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.

This covers guidlines on confidentiality from the American Psychiatric Association.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry.

This book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on law and psychiatry.

The is a compilation of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the management of the violent patient.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on tardive dyskinesia.

The book reviews the research on mental illness and addictive disorders.

This remarkable work presents the nuts and bolts of incorporating culture into therapy in a way that is immediately useful and practical. Illustrated by numerous case studies that demonstrate issues, techniques, and recommendations, this volume focuses not on specific race or ethnicity but instead on culture.

This practical volume brings together distinguished clinicians and policymakers who focus on the operational aspects of developing state-of-the-art integrated delivery systems, from concept and structural foundations to critical administrative and management structures.

Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders provides psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals with a thorough examination of the most current research on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders.

This volume summarizes the significant events and processes of the half-century following World War II. Most of this history is written by clinicians who were central figures in it.

Dr. Morain's remarkable psychological study of Joseph Smith, Jr. will be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers-as a social history, religious biography, an account of the dissociative elements in poetic and spiritual genius, or simply a gripping portrait of an ill-fated and tragic man.