Tool for caregivers that impact the way they relate to persons with Alzheimer's disease. This book maps each stage showing what to do from a caregiving standpoint. It has charts and sketches on what physically happens to the brain during the progression of Alzheimer's. Its four sections focus on the disease and also on being a caregiver.
Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Care describes various cost-effective alternatives to psychiatric hospital care and provides specific details for mental health administrators to evaluate the usefulness and feasibility of the various models for their own mental health care setting.
Clinical Features and Treatment Across the Diagnostic Spectrum
Based on the latest research, Aggression: Clinical Features and Treatment Across the Diagnostic Spectrum is designed to aid mental health practitioners in identifying and treating aggression in diverse patient presentations.
Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research, this book serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.
In seven succinct chapters, contributors review recent developments -- emphasizing interventions supported by controlled studies -- in the treatment and maintenance treatment of patients with acute mania and acute bipolar depression as well as maintenance therapy and the management of, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, and acute bipolar depression.
Bringing together important articles from Psychodynamic Psychiatry, this volume shows how contemporary practitioners are using a multidimensional biopsychosocial approach to increase the robustness of clinical research and the effectiveness of patient care. Chapters review cutting-edge approaches to formulating anxiety and mood disorders, eating ......
Reflects on what is promising in working with the suicidal adolescent and provides information relevant to theory, practice, and intervention. This volume provides empirically based findings that can be easily translated for practical use by the clinician. It includes discussion of malpractice risk management, and an extensive list of references.
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.