Revised and updated to incorporate the latest research findings, this economical paperback abridgement of the Textbook presents, in distilled form, the core knowledge base of clinical psychiatry by focusing on information of greatest relevance to the practicing clinician.
Essential Psychiatry is uniquely designed. Fact sheets open each chapter and provide a useful summary to orientate the reader before confronting the details of a topic; these fact sheets also provide a useful aid to revision.
The book identifies physical symptoms as a common mode of presentation of mental health problems and describes how to integrate them with psychological symptoms to make diagnoses of mental disorders.
Psychiatry Essentials for Primary Care
This is a major international textbook for psychiatrists and other professionals working in the field of mental healthcare.
Practical Examples: The book contains examples from routine clinical scenarios, making it more attention-grabbing to read and understand to readers.
The book addresses core competency issues, including communication skills, system-based aspects of care, and professionalism and focuses on innovative areas of psychiatry including patient-centered care practices and new therapies.
The book closes with an index of the most common presenting symptoms, listing possible diagnoses that must be considered for each.
An accessible and comprehensive textbook providing an essential foundation in contemporary psychiatry for medical students and trainees.
This new edition continues to retain the reader-friendly style, emphasis on therapeutic communication, and the nursing process organization that was successful in the previous edition.
In this book, Sakauye covers issues fundamental to the field of geriatric psychiatry that are not addressed well in general adult training: Late-life development Biology of aging Common medical illnesses associated with aging Neurobiology ...