A manual for the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). This edition presents instructions for administering and scoring the forms; a set of normative data and guidelines for using this data; an overview of the CDI-III; information on scanning and automated scoring options; and more.
AJN award winner!This is a concise, easy-to-use reference, enabling health care providers to identify and understand how and when to use the full scope of medical imaging testing modalities - radiographs, CTs, nuclear imaging, and ultrasound scans and images. The new second edition features a more in-depth discussion of each modality with a focus ......
This selection provides a comprehensive overview of the process of diagnosing neurodevelopmental disorders while serving as a reference guide to assist in the diagnosis of individual patients. The disorder-specific resource is an invaluable addition to the DSM-5 (R) collection and an important contribution to the mental health profession.
As the title suggests this book has been written to assist manual therapists to understand and hone the palpatory skills which are essential to their effectiveness as practitioners. Skilful palpation is the foundation stone of all effective manual therapy assessments and treatments. The ability to use subtle and sensitive touch to examine and ......
For the Assessment of Mental Health Problems in People with Intellectual
The PAS-ADD clinical interview has been designed to meet the particular problems of assessment in people with intellectual disability (mental retardation), but is equally valid for use with the general population. It provides full diagnoses under both ICD 10 and DSM IV(TR), and also provides a framework for producing a wider case formulation using ......
This book is a comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date practical guide to the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in critical care. It features detailed descriptions of how to perform a POCUS examination plus practical information on using POCUS in the assessment of shock, trauma and cardiac arrest.
A comprehensive guide for the practicing pathologist and trainee. This volume provides anatomic pathologists with the essential knowledge and tools to navigate breast cases and classification systems that are commonly and uncommonly found in everyday practice. Particularly challenging topics are covered in clear prose, along with discussions on ......
Reviews the available research on standardized measures currently available for evaluating trauma's impact, noting the psychometric characteristics of each instrument. A comprehensive review of new trauma-relevant measures is provided, emphasizing their direct clinical relevance to the assessment of posttraumatic states.
Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders provides mental health service planners, clinicians and researchers with a better understanding of how the current state of mental health classification and diagnosis impacts public health care.