Six major sections of the mse follow and are thoroughly described with a chapter devoted to each: Appearance, Attitude, Thought Process, Activity; Mood and Affect; Speech and Language; Thought Content, and Perception; Cognition; and Insight and Judgment. This text is an important addition to the libraries of students and practitioners who work with psychiatric patients and should help to simplify and organize a challenging task.
Each chapter lists a detailed definition of reference for students describing their findings, and are an insightful review even for experienced practitioners. A final chapter describing fictional case histories with hypothetical examples of written mental status reports will be particularly useful for those learning to write such reports.
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The Psychiatric Interview
Uses mnemonics and pocket cards to help you understand and remember key elements of the effective interview. Brings you up to speed with the dsm-5 and current research, substance abuse, including changes in diagnosing dementia, eating disorders, ADHD, and more. Provides clear techniques for approaching threatening topics, and shows how relationships that are endangered can be repaired.
Presents information in an engaging, conversational manner, helping you form an alliance with each patient in order to promote cooperation and effective treatment. Ideal for psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, nurse practitioners, or other mental health professionals. Now with the print edition, and even the webcross-linked pages, references, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, your notes, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:Complete content with enhanced navigationPowerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, and more for easy navigationHighlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the textAbility to take and share notes with friends and colleaguesQuick reference tabbing to save your favorite content for future use Lww.
. Now dsm-5 updated! using a unique and effective combination of mnemonics, The Psychiatric Interview, and phrasing examples that illustrate the nuances of the interviewing process, practical techniques, 4th Edition helps you establish a rapport with patients and gain valuable clinical insights.
A Fruitful Harvest: Essay after Bion
He has a special talent for the autistic spectrum of children in therapy, but has something to give all of us that speaks to our difficulties in living. Lww. A superb exploration of the importance of emotional pain--how we deal with it, how we can deal with it.
Basic Interviewing: A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians
Some were too difficult; some were too simplistic; some were too doctrinaire; still others had missing elements. Throughout, rich clinical illustrations facilitate the pragmatic application of fundamental principles. Beginning graduate students in counseling and clinical psychology, as well as psychiatric trainees, and other allied mental health fields, social work, will find this text to be an indispensable companion.
Written in a reader-friendly "how-to" style, the chapters in Basic Interviewing are not weighed down by references. Rather, each contributor suggests readings for students and instructors who wish to pursue questions further. This book offers clear and direct answers to the questions most frequently asked by students and trainees learning how to talk to clients and extract critical data from them.
They cover a variety of issues from the most specific--like how to begin and end interviews--to the more general--like how to build rapport and identify targets for treatment. Its development reflects the old adage that "necessity is the mother of invention. For many years, the editors taught beginning level mental health clinicians.
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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
With this fully revised fourth edition, dr Stahl returns to the essential roots of what it means to become a neurobiologically empowered psychopharmacologist, expertly guided in the selection and combination of treatments for individual patients in practice. This remains the essential text for all students and professionals in mental health seeking to understand and utilize current therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications.
. Lww. Integrating much of the basic neuroscience into the clinical chapters, antidepressants, compulsivity and addiction, antipsychotics, impulsivity, and with major additions in the areas of psychosis, this is the single most readily readable source of information on disease and drug mechanisms. Used book in Good Condition.
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Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry
In this best-selling textbook in psychiatry for over 40 years, the reader will find a thorough discussion of both the behavioral sciences and clinical psychiatry. Wolters Kluwer Health. The 11th edition integrates all the DSM-5 criteria and provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of treatment methods for every known mental disorder.
The 11th edition is set apart from any other reference you have and includes:DSM-5 diagnostic tables on every major psychiatric disorder. A psychopharmacology section organized according to mechanisms of action and updated to include all of the new drugs including those in preparation. Extensive use of case studies and illustrations to enhance the learning experience.
The most current treatment methods including a description of all newly introduced psychotherapeutic techniques. A completely revised section on neurocognitive disorders organized along the DSM-5 model. An updated and expanded section on child psychiatry; now includes a guide to diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder and other disorders of childhood.
A fully searchable eBook, bundled with the print.
Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology BPS Textbooks in Psychology
Cambridge University Press. A fully updated lecturer test bank has also been developed including over 1, 000 questions, as well as suggested essay questions and these can be accessed by instructors on our lecturer book companion site. Many of these features have been updated for the new edition and new material has been included to reflect the changes in DSM-5.
The emphasis in the book is on providing students with a real insight into the nature and experience of mental health problems, both through the written coverage and by providing a range of video material covering personal accounts of mental health problems. The text is integrated with a wide variety of teaching and learning features that will enable facilitators to teach more effectively, and students to learn more comprehensively.
Wolters Kluwer Health. The site also contains hundreds of new student quizzes, lists of relevant journal articles many of which provide free links to relevant articles published in Wiley Blackwell journals, as well as revision flashcards, discussion topics, student learning activities, and topics for discussion related to clinical research and clinical practice.
The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates
Cambridge University Press. A time-saving resource, managed care companies, fully revised to meet the changing needs of mental health professionals The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5
Specific criteria have been streamlined, and pervasive developmental disorder into autism spectrum disorder, the restructuring of substance use disorders for consistency and clarity, Asperger’s syndrome, or clarified to be consistent with clinical practice including the consolidation of autism disorder, consolidated, the streamlined classification of bipolar and depressive disorders, and the enhanced specificity for major and mild neurocognitive disorders.
Also included are age-related factors specific to diagnosis. The criteria are concise and explicit, clinical, intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings—inpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, outpatient, private practice, and primary care.
Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5. The information contained in the manual is also valuable to other physicians and health professionals, nurses, and occupational and rehabilitation therapists, including psychologists, counselors, as well as social workers and forensic and legal specialists Lww.
Their dedication and hard work have yielded an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research. Dimensional assessments for research and validation of clinical results have been provided.
Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-5
The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental Disorders stands alone as the most authoritative reference available for clinical practice in the mental health field, and the structural and diagnostic changes in the fifth edition are must-know material for every clinician. The desk reference to the diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5 is a concise, affordable companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-5.
It includes the fully revised diagnostic classification, as well as all of the diagnostic criteria from DSM-5 in an easy-to-use paperback format. Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5. Used book in Good Condition. Cambridge University Press. Designed to supplement dsm-5, this convenient guide will assist all mental health professionals as they integrate the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria into their diagnoses.
This handy reference provides quick access to the information essential to making a diagnosis. Lww.
The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
He presents a groundbreaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind and the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for over 100, 000 readers. New to this edition *Incorporates significant scientific and technical advances.
Daniel J. Guilford Publications. Professors praise the book’s utility in courses from developmental psychology and child development to neuroscience and counseling. Expanded discussions of cutting-edge topics, mindfulness, epigenetics, including neuroplasticity, and the neural correlates of consciousness.
Useful pedagogical features: pull-outs, diagrams, and a glossary. Epilogue on domains of integration--specific pathways to well-being and therapeutic change.