Psychiatry category: 2250 books
Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Poverty
Research Implications for Early Child Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs. Leading authorities from multiple disciplines present cutting-edge research...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from mental health and substance use problems, and to inform, develop, and educate by sharing and pooling knowledge, and enhancing expertise, in this fast developing region of ethics and ethical...
Case Studies in Sleep Neurology
Common and Uncommon Presentations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Sleep disorders are increasingly recognized as a major clinical problem, with significant morbidity and considerable economic importance. This compendium of case studies presents a diverse range of situations which challenge the problem-solving abilities of all those interested in sleep disorders,...
Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders
Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-5 and ICD-11
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis and Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-5 and ICD-11 provides a comprehensive summary of the current state of mental health classification in the United States and internationally, fostering a better understanding...
Suicide
An unnecessary death
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Approximately one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and at least ten times as many attempt suicide. A considerable number of these people are in contact with members of the healthcare sector, and encounters with suicidal individuals form a common part of the everyday work of many...
Facilitating Pathways
Care, Treatment and Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Multidisciplinary and trans-cultural …
This book provides an up-to-date review of the current state of care, treatment and prevention in child and adolescent mental health from multidisciplinary and trans-cultural perspectives. Systems of care, services and interventions in selected parts...
Teens with Diabetes
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The...
The Analytic Situation
How Patient and Therapist Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Significant as has been the role of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in contemporary culture and society, its importance continues to grow at an accelerating rate as more specific, focused, and involving forms of therapy are devised. The contributions of eminent practitioners that make up this volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Fully revised, this new edition reviews the most up-to-date and clinically relevant information on the mental health and behavioral problems of people with intellectual, developmental and learning disabilities, also previously known as mental retardation. Providing the latest evidence base from the...
Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics
Contemporary Surgical and Device-Based Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This volume covers the gamut of surgical and device-based treatments for psychiatric disorders. Written by experts in the field, this book covers neuroscience advances in the neurobiological underpinnings of psychiatric diseases, emerging surgical and device-based treatments, and advances in the field....
Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders
An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This...
Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness
Toward an Integrative Model
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
What produces mental illness: genes, environment, both,neither? The answer can be found in memes—replicable units of information linking genes and environment in the memory and in culture—whose effects on individual brain development can be benign or toxic. This book reconceptualizes mental disorders...
Let Them Eat Prozac
The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Prozac. Paxil. Zoloft. Turn on your television and you are likely to see a commercial for one of the many selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) on the market. We hear a lot about them, but do we really understand how these drugs work and what risks are involved for anyone who uses them?
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Schizophrenia
A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
When bright lives are derailed by schizophrenia, bewildered and anxious families struggle to help, and to cope, even as scientists search for causes and treatments that prove elusive. Painful and often misunderstood, schizophrenia profoundly affects people who have the disease and their loved ones....