Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making the correct psychiatric diagnosis and choosing the most appropriate treatment option. This book aims to help with both.
Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders – Second Edition combines clinically-relevant information about each of the DSM-IV-TR diagnoses with clear, detailed information on treatment options, giving full clinical management advice. Once again, the editors, both leading psychiatrists, have condensed the chapters on Disorders from Tasman et al’s acclaimed two volume textbook of Psychiatry (now in its Third Edition), retaining only the content they deem particularly relevant to the clinician for ease of use.
Each disorder is discussed under the headings of Diagnosis (including Assessment Issues, Comorbidity, Course, and Differential Diagnosis, giving diagnostic decision trees where relevant) and Treatment (listing all therapeutic options, giving practical advice for patient management, summarising treatment specifics with tables and treatment flowcharts).
The original edition established itself as the first point of reference for any clinician or mental health practitioner needing expert advice on therapeutic options for any psychiatric disorder. This edition features an additional chapter on the psychiatric interview and assessment of mental status to increase its utility.
It echoes the progress in psychiatry regarding the establishment of an evidenced-based model of taxonomy, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment. Indeed, from a psychologist’s perspective, the equal consideration provided to empirically supported psychosocial treatments versus somatic treatment is a significant development in the field of psychiatry.
Jonathan Weinand in Psyc Critiques, the American Psychological Association Review of Books
Table of Content
Preface xxvii
Chapter 1 The Psychiatric Interview 1
Chapter 2 Childhood Disorders: Intellectual Disability 17
Chapter 3 Childhood Disorders: Learning and Motor Skills Disorders 31
Chapter 4 Childhood Disorders: Communication Disorders 41
Chapter 5 Childhood Disorders: The Pervasive Developmental Disorders 49
Chapter 6 Childhood Disorders: Attention-Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders 61
Chapter 7 Childhood Disorders: Feeding and Related Disorders of Infancy or Early Childhood 73
Chapter 8 Childhood Disorders: Tic Disorders 81
Chapter 9 Childhood Disorders: Elimination Disorders and Childhood Anxiety Disorders 87
Chapter 10 Stereotypic Movement Disorder and Reactive Attachment Disorder 99
Chapter 11 Delirium, Dementia, and Other Cognitive Disorders 105
Chapter 12 Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition 131
Chapter 13 General Approaches to Substance and Polydrug Use Disorders 145
Chapter 14 Substance-Related Disorders: Alcohol 153
Chapter 15 Substance-Related Disorders: Amphetamine 167
Chapter 16 Substance-Related Disorders: Caffeine 173
Chapter 17 Substance-Related Disorders: Cannabis 181
Chapter 18 Substance-Related Disorders: Cocaine 185
Chapter 19 Substance-Related Disorders: Hallucinogens and MDMA 195
Chapter 20 Substance-Related Disorders: Inhalants 203
Chapter 21 Substance-Related Disorders: Nicotine 211Treatment 214
Chapter 22 Substance-Related Disorders: Opioids 221
Chapter 23 Substance-Related Disorders: Phencyclidine 231
Chapter 24 Substance-Related Disorders: Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics 235
Chapter 25 Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses 245
Chapter 26 Mood Disorders: Depressive Disorders 279
Chapter 27 Mood Disorders: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder 303
Chapter 28 Mood Disorders: Bipolar Disorder 309
Chapter 29 Anxiety Disorders: Panic Disorder With and Without Agoraphobia 323
Chapter 30 Anxiety Disorders: Social and Specific Phobias 331
Chapter 31 Anxiety Disorders: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder 347
Chapter 32 Anxiety Disorders: Traumatic Stress Disorders 359
Chapter 33 Anxiety Disorders: Generalized Anxiety Disorder 373
Chapter 34 Somatoform Disorders 383
Chapter 35 Factitious Disorders 409
Chapter 36 Dissociative Disorders 417
Chapter 38 Eating Disorders 443
Chapter 39 Sleep and Sleep–Wake Disorders 453
Chapter 40 Impulse Control Disorders 475
Chapter 41 Adjustment Disorders 489
Chapter 42 Personality Disorders 493
Index 511
About the author
Michael B First
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and the Psychiatric Institute of New York. He is an expert on the DSM-IV-TR classification and is playing a key role in the development of DSM-V.
Allan Tasman
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA. Professor Tasman is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association and President of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. He is a world-renowned psychiatric leader and educator and is Secretary for Education of the World Psychiatric Association, responsible for all of the association’s worldwide education programmes and initiatives.
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