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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.

Assessment of Neuropsychological Functions in Psychiatric Disorders covers findings on all major psychiatric disorders. This book looks at neuropsychological assessment, phenomenology, and rehabilitation of psychiatric patients.

Factitious disorder presents one of the most challenging variants of psychopathology in medicine. The book is the first for professionals to offer a comprehensive overview of current thinking about patients who feign or induce illness-in themselves or others-to accrue the intangible benefits of the "sick" role.

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.

Covering both the ChIPS and P-ChIPS, the booklet presents background information about the interview's development, detailed instructions for conducting the interview and recording its results, explicit criteria for assessing interviewee responses, complete specifications for preparing mental health paraprofessionals to administer the interview.

Based on strict DSM-IV criteria and validated in 12 years of studies, ChIPS and P-ChIPS - the parent version of the interview - are brief and simple to administer. Questions are succinct, simply worded, and easily understood by children and adolescents. Practitioners in clinical and research settings alike have already found ChIPS indispensable.

The book compiles the results of several research studies on this subject. It discusses important developments in interpersonal psychotherapy research and its translation into clinical practice. It describes typical phases of treatments and highlights applications for patient populations, which have seen results from interpersonal psychotherapy.

This book provides an understanding of the childhood onsets of adult psychiatric disorders, including when and in what sequence psychiatric disorders begin in childhood, and how these disorders evolve over the life span. The authors review the data on very early forms of depression, criminality, alcoholism, schizophrenia, and anxiety.

Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder assembles almost 20 experts to examine the latest research on this topic. This book discusses strategies for assessing risk and compiles findings from several studies for identifying risk factors related to demographic, environmental, genetic, and biological factors.

This is a resource for dealing with both perpetrators and victims of violence and understanding the risk factors facing youth. Presenting an assessment of effects of exposure to violence and the continuity of aggression from early childhood to adulthood, it outlines an integration strategy for public policy towards prevention and treatment.

Throughout history, people have invented many different ways to inflict direct and deliberate physical injury on themselves - without an intent to die. Even today, the concept and practice of self-injury is sanctioned by some cultures, although condemned by most. This insightful work fills a gap in the literature on pathologic self-injury.

Today, 25% of Americans smoke and 50% of smokers die from tobacco-related illnesses. Meanwhile, little attention has been given to implementing cessation therapies for our patients who smoke. Nicotine in Psychiatry: Psychopathology and Emerging Therapeutics examines this timely subject.

This book lays the traditional diagnostic oversimplification of schizophrenia to rest once and for all. The editors of this groundbreaking work challenge the reductionist view of schizophrenia as a single unitary disorder-a view that has led many psychiatrists and mental health care professionals to overlook potentially important syndromes.

In recent years society has witnessed more and more reports of violence and abuse related to sexual aggression. Sexual Aggression explores this phenomenon - from the recognition of the development of sexual behaviour problems in childhood to the assessment and treatment of both male and female adolescent and adult sex offenders.

The book acknowledges and explores the role psychiatrists can play as advisers to the terminally ill and their loved ones. It describes the wide range of emotional and psychiatric issues faced by the patient, family, and physician that affect choices patients make to limit treatment or seek physician assistance in dying.

This volume explores the new era of study made possible by the electrifying pace of discovery and innovation in the field of molecular genetics. Questioning, critical, and strong on methodological principles, this volume reflects the point of view of its 35 distinguished contributors.