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The book focuses on clinical care that is within the scope of psychiatrists and other mental health care providers who work in outpatient mental health and integrated clinics. The book is an eminently useful, evidence-based guide to offering holistic care and improving their patients' health.

The book provides civilian medical and nonmedical care providers with practical information to effectively understand, support, and address this population's needs. Promoting family resilience is a theme emphasized throughout chapters on traumatic brain injury, substance use disorders, and more.

Psycho-oncology was written to assist oncologists, physicians, psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians, and hospital chaplains in understanding and offering supportive treatment to the more than 40% of individuals who will receive a cancer diagnosis during their lifetime.

These include developmental age-related aspects of psychiatric diagnosis and symptom presentation; underlying neuro-circuitry and genetic similarities that may clarify diagnostic boundaries and inform a more etiologically-based taxonomy of disorder categories.

Mastering the art of supportive psychotherapy demands years of training and experience -- and Learning Supportive Psychotherapy: An Illustrated Guide paves the way. The text follows one of the three formats now required for psychiatry residency training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The third edition represents the editors' cutting-edge vision while preserving the down-to-earth, accessible, and trustworthy style that has made the book a staple. It offers up-to-date perspectives on assessment and management of suicide risk in a reorganized and easy-to-use volume.

This updated, third edition has been streamlined to provide a pragmatic approach to the realities confronting clinicians in today's busy inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Each chapter features one or more clinical vignettes that illustrate the complexity of the presentation of abnormal vital signs and somatic disorders in psychiatric settings.

Presents the latest research on substance use and substance use disorders in adolescents 12-18 and emerging adults 18-25 years of age. This new manual offers a substantive update of the previous manual's 16 chapters, offering seven new chapters devoted to important new topics.

This book focuses on medical disorders that can directly cause or affect the clinical presentation and course of psychiatric disorders. The comprehensive knowledge base and clinical wisdom contained in the textbook makes it the go-to resource for evaluating and managing these difficult cases.

A comprehensive, authoritative work designed to be invaluable to clinicians, researchers, and people struggling with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and those who care about them. This book offers a systematic exploration, with chapters on every facet of the disorder from leading experts on scientific techniques.

Offers both clinicians and researchers a single-volume resource that covers not only advances in clinical interventions but also the latest advances in theoretical knowledge. Following a comprehensive overview of anxiety disorders, the book provides detailed coverage of seven specific DSM-IV-TR diagnoses.

This is comprehensive guide to the specific modality of supportive psychotherapy. It documents the wide applicability of supportive psychotherapy, beyond its usual confines of patients in crisis or with chronic mental or physical illness. It presents in a clear and concise fashion the background and techniques of supportive psychotherapy.

This is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter. It is made up of approximately 390 questions divided into 39 individual quizzes each that correspond to chapters in the textbook.

The book provides readers with evidence-based, pragmatic, and clear recommendations regarding the care of patients with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

The book offers expert perspectives and guidance in understanding, assessing, and addressing school violence. It emphasizes that mass casualty events are but one type of violence, and that school violence comes in many different forms.

Intended as a primer for doing supportive therapy using psychodynamic principles, the book offers a solid foundation for the basic strategies and techniques of psychotherapy of any type.

A high level of exhaustion, an increased feeling of depersonalisation, and a low sense of personal accomplishment-the hallmarks of burnout-are on the rise in medicine. Combating Physician Burnout, the first book of its kind to focus on the field of psychiatry, aims to educate psychiatrists about the three key concepts of stress, burnout, and physician impairment.

This book explores the impact of divorce on adolescents and young adults, drawing on anecdotes from the authors' own medical and law practices to illustrate how parents' decision-making can powerfully impact their children's well-being before, during, and after a divorce-even into adulthood.

Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians provides a clear and straightforward analysis of its many therapeutic applications and the technologies and techniques involved in each. This book is an essential reference for any clinician considering the use of electrical stimulation therapies.

With expert guidance on developing specialty care service models for young people experiencing first-episode psychosis, the book offers a multimodal approach that aims for recovery and remission.

The shortage of geriatric mental health specialists makes the creation of trustworthy, user-friendly resources more critical than ever. This book is accessible not only to physicians and mental health practitioners, but also to a broader audience of care and service providers for older adults, such as social workers and nurses.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains a widely used treatment for severe mental illness - and perhaps the most effective. Principles and Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy offers up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of all aspects of ECT.

The book includes a chapter, written by the treatment developer(s), on each of the six treatments that have been shown in randomized controlled trials to reduce suicidal and/or self-harm behavior in adolescents with prior histories of these behaviors.

With chapters that focus on developing a robust therapeutic alliance and inspiring patients to assume responsibility for their own well-being, this guide provides a framework for lasting, sustainable lifestyle changes.

This book is an authoritative and contemporary guide to the assessment and management of childhood-onset mood disorder.

Explores a range of supervisory techniques as well as a variety of venues - from inpatient and community-based settings to diverse administrative contexts and scholarly environments. The book also features a thorough discussion of unique issues in supervision, as well as legal issues and the current state of professional development.

The new seventh edition reflects advances in the understanding of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders as well as the positive, transformational change that has taken place in the field of psychiatry.

This new, meticulously updated edition offers the latest research on the foundations, techniques, and efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy, while still providing the basic information on assessment, indications, formulations, therapist interventions, goals of therapy, and mechanisms of therapeutic action that all mental health professionals require in order to provide excellent care.

The book is written in an accessible, even entertaining, way that provides science-based answers to a wide variety of questions about ADHD, its evaluation, and treatment.

Especially helpful for clinicians who have an interest in behavior change but do not possess specialized training in addiction treatment. The study questions at the end of most chapters, accompanied by an answer guide, will help reinforce basic concepts and can be used for self-study, board or general review.