Kaplan and Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
2nd Edition
Published on 4. November 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
700 pages
978-0-7817-5033-2 (ISBN)
Description
This concise textbook is ideal for any student or health care professional who needs an authoritative, readable, affordable text that is sharply focused on clinical psychiatry. It contains the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock's "Synopsis of Psychiatry, Ninth Edition" and includes updated information on clinical syndromes and recently introduced pharmacological agents. This book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.Initial chapters cover the clinical examination, the psychiatric report, medical assessment of the psychiatric patient, laboratory tests, signs and symptoms, and classification and rating scales. The major portion of the book covers all psychiatric and substance-related disorders, with special chapters devoted to infants, children, adolescents, and geriatric patients. Also included are chapters on end-of-life care and palliative medicine, forensic psychiatry, ethical issues, and emergency psychiatry.
This concise textbook is ideal for any student or health care professional who needs an authoritative, readable, affordable text that is sharply focused on clinical psychiatry. It contains the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock's "Synopsis of Psychiatry, Ninth Edition" and includes updated information on clinical syndromes and recently introduced pharmacological agents. This book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.Initial chapters cover the clinical examination, the psychiatric report, medical assessment of the psychiatric patient, laboratory tests, signs and symptoms, and classification and rating scales. The major portion of the book covers all psychiatric and substance-related disorders, with special chapters devoted to infants, children, adolescents, and geriatric patients. Also included are chapters on end-of-life care and palliative medicine, forensic psychiatry, ethical issues, and emergency psychiatry.
This concise textbook is ideal for any student or health care professional who needs an authoritative, readable, affordable text that is sharply focused on clinical psychiatry. It contains the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock's "Synopsis of Psychiatry, Ninth Edition" and includes updated information on clinical syndromes and recently introduced pharmacological agents. This book is DSM-IV-TR compatible and replete with case studies and tables, including DSM-IV-TR tables.Initial chapters cover the clinical examination, the psychiatric report, medical assessment of the psychiatric patient, laboratory tests, signs and symptoms, and classification and rating scales. The major portion of the book covers all psychiatric and substance-related disorders, with special chapters devoted to infants, children, adolescents, and geriatric patients. Also included are chapters on end-of-life care and palliative medicine, forensic psychiatry, ethical issues, and emergency psychiatry.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
3
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7817-5033-2 (9780781750332)
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Benjamin J. Sadock | Virginia A. Sadock
Kaplan and Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
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04/2008
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
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Previous edition
Harold I. Kaplan | Benjamin Sadock
Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
Book
05/1996
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
€58.38
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Content
<ol> Clinical Examination of the Psychiatric Patient 1 Psychiatric Report 11 Medical Assessment of the Psychiatric Patient 15 Laboratory Tests in Psychiatry 21 Signs and Symptoms in Psychiatry 26 Classification in Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rating Scales 33 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders and Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition 45 Neuropsychiatric Aspects of HIV Infection and AIDS 73 Substance-Related Disorders 77 Schizophrenia 134 Other Psychotic Disorders 154 Mood Disorders 173 Anxiety Disorders 211 Somatoform and Pain Disorders 247 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Neurasthenia 259 Factitious Disorders 261 Dissociative Disorders 266 Human Sexuality 275 Gender Identity Disorders 297 Eating Disorders 302 Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders 309 Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified 323 Adjustment Disorders 332 Personality Disorders 336 Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Condition and Psychosomatic Medicine 355 Psychiatry and Reproductive Medicine 364 Relational Problems 367 Problems Related to Abuse or Neglect 370 Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention 377 Emergency Psychiatric Medicine 382 Psychotherapies 396 Biological Therapies 418 Child Psychiatry: Assessment, Examination, and Psychological Testing 507 Mental Retardation 512 Learning Disorders 521 Motor Skills Disorder: Developmental Coordination Disorder 526 Communication Disorders 528 Pervasive Developmental Disorders 535 Attention-Deficit Disorders 544 Disruptive Behavior Disorders 548 Feeding and Eating Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood 553 Tic Disorders 557 Elimination Disorders 562 Other Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence 566 Mood Disorders and Suicide in Children and Adolescents 575 Early-Onset Schizophrenia 579 Adolescent Substance Abuse 582 Child Psychiatry: Additional Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention 585 Psychiatric Treatment of Children and Adolescents 589 Geriatric Psychiatry 599 End-of-Life Care and Palliative Medicine 603 Forensic Psychiatry 609 Ethics in Psychiatry 615 Index 619