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.
Trained clinicians with a basic knowledge of the concepts of personality and personality psychopathology will find the SCID-5-AMPD a valuable tool in the assessment and study of personality disorders.
The SCID-5-PD is the updated version of the former Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II). The SCID-5-PD name reflects the elimination of the multiaxial system in DSM-5.
Interview questions are provided conveniently along each corresponding DSM-5 criterion, which aids in rating each as either present or absent. A unique and valuable tool, the SCID-5-CV covers the DSM-5 diagnoses most commonly seen in clinical settings.
Offering a fresh new look at how Freud practised psychoanalysis, this book draws upon the five existing full-length accounts of Freud's analyses written by the patients themselves.
This text aims to provide a calm and authoritative guide to the full range of specific mental illnesses and available treatments. It deals with particular patterns of illness and stresses the value of partnership among psychiatrists, patients and their families.
Released in 2012 as a free, easily administered measure of personality pathology domains and traits as described in the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders, the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) has spawned interest-and a considerable amount of research-since its publication. Rather than trying to match an individual's personal ......
School absenteeism is a huge problem in education and this book focuses in particular on children who experience 'school phobia' or 'school refusal' as opposed to those who choose to truant.School refusal is a crippling condition in which children experience extreme anxiety or panic attacks when faced with everyday school life and this handbook ......
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the essential information that families, teachers, caregivers, clinicians and mental health professionals need in order to understand and treat ......
Understanding Mental Disorders: Your Guide to DSM-5-TR is a valuable guide for anyone who has been touched by mental illness. Most of us know someone who suffers from a mental illness. This book helps those who may be struggling with mental health problems, as well as those who love and care for them. Based on the latest ......
Applying Empirical Research to Practice and Policy
Women are more likely to suffer from depression than are men, and depression is the leading cause of disability for women throughout the world. This book surveys the findings of experts in depression and explores the findings on treatment, prevention, and service delivery. It draws information from the work of over 40 top experts in the field.
Illustrated with over 100 children's drawings, this practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with young people by integrating drawing into therapy. Topics covered include how to assist children in making art, what questions to ask and when, and how to motivate children who are initially resistant to ......
Examines the development and course of bipolar disorder across the lifespan, identifying important directions for evidence-based treatment and prevention.
This is a comprehensive guide to assessment, management, understanding, and treatment of violent patients. The first section encompasses practical guides to treatment for both children and adults. The second section delves into a more conceptual and broadly focused approach to understanding violent patients.
It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.
Paul Cooper is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Leicester, UK. Paul is also Co-chair of ENSEC, and the ENSEC representative at the European Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, University of Malta.
Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and selfdestruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the ......
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking, and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors provides clinicians, researchers, family members, and individuals with the cutting-edge, comprehensive resource they need to understand and address the problem.
