Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Understanding Suicide
From Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
In this book international experts address a range of key current issues relating to suicide. The opening chapters discuss nosology, definitions, clinical determinants, and conceptual models of the suicide process and consider the evidence regarding potential biomarkers of suicide risk based on neuroscientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Sex matters! Are there differences between the sexes when it comes to brain function and the behaviours that result? This volume attempts to answer this fundamental question. If the answer is ‘yes’ then this should impact upon our approach to treating mental illness in humans, and to modelling it in animals, as we look for aetiological and pharmacological solutions.
Bipolar Disorders
Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Over the past two decades, driven by the enormous public health importance of bipolar disorder, research initiatives have begun to elucidate the pathophysiology of this prevalent and debilitating condition. These research initiatives have led to breakthroughs in our understanding of causation, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Hallucinatory phenomena have held the fascination of science since the dawn of medicine, and the popular imagination from the beginning of recorded history. Their study has become a critical aspect of our knowledge of the brain, making significant strides in recent years with advances in neuroimaging,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In the 1960's marked changes occurred throughout the world in philosophies and policies related to man's role in life. These changes, prompted predominantly by extensive increases in knowledge and popula tion density, have produced increased pleasures as well as problems. The rising number of people...
Psychiatric Care in Severe Obesity
An Interdisciplinary Guide to Integrated Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book is designed to present a comprehensive, state-of the-art approach to assessing and managing bariatric surgery and psychosocial care. Unlike any other text, this book focuses on developing a biopsychosocial understanding of patients’ obesity journey and psychosocial factors contributing...
Sleep Medicine
A Comprehensive Guide to Its Development, Clinical Milestones, and Advances in Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
This comprehensive volume provides a balanced and easily readable account of the rise of modern sleep medicine, its history and developmental milestones. Authored by an international group of experts, the remarkable progress and fascinating evolution from rudimentary concepts of the ancient prehistoric...
by David G. Kingdon, MD, Douglas Turkington
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
Drawing on the authors' decades of influential work in the field, this highly practical volume presents an evidence-based cognitive therapy approach for clients with schizophrenia. Guidelines are provided for collaborative assessment and case formulation that enable the clinician to build a strong...
Essential Play Therapy Techniques
Time-Tested Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activities,...
Parenting Through the Storm
Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Raising a child or teenager with a psychological condition is a "perfect storm" of stress, sadness, and uncertainty. How can you find the best treatments and help your child overcome emotional, behavioral, and academic challenges--while keeping yourself and your family strong? As a parent,...
Parent-Led CBT for Child Anxiety
Helping Parents Help Their Kids
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to use with their 5- to 12-year-old. Session-by-session guidelines are...
Interactive Staff Training
Rehabilitation Teams that Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Health workers who provide services to persons with severe mental illness are frequently under enormous stress; burnout is common. Alleviating such stress is the objective of Interactive Staff Training. The book provides rehabilitation and mental health professionals with a strategy to help them and...
Epidemiology of Psychogenic Disorders
The Mannheim Study · Results of a Field Survey in the Federal Republic of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Shortened version of the original German edition: Psychogene Erkrankungen der Stadtbevölkerung, 1987, Springer-Verlag
Life After Darkness
A Doctor’s Journey Through Severe Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Life After Darkness is the remarkable and moving story of a doctor and mother of four who endured seven years of severe depression. Self-harm, attempted suicides and admissions to psychiatric units culminated in her resorting to brain surgery as a final attempt to escape her illness. The story of...